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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Introduction: The Beach.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many daughters did Isaac Cline have in 1900?
(a) 1.
(b) 0.
(c) 2.
(d) 3.

2. Who was nicknamed "Pathfinder of the Seas" and "Father of Modern Oceanography and Naval Meteorology"?
(a) Matthew Fontaine Maury.
(b) A. V. Kellogg.
(c) William B. Stockman.
(d) William Dampier.

3. Galveston's highest point was how many feet above sea level in 1900?
(a) 12.6.
(b) 8.7.
(c) 4.2.
(d) 17.9.

4. In Introduction: The Beach, Isaac had warnings from the central Weather Bureau that what location had been battered by a severe tropical storm?
(a) Spain.
(b) Ecuador.
(c) Cuba.
(d) Hawaii.

5. The narrative of Introduction: The Beach states that on the night of what date did Isaac Monroe Cline have an inexplicable feeling of foreboding?
(a) September 7, 1900.
(b) January 22, 1894.
(c) March 1, 1911.
(d) May 16, 1898.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Isaac Cline earn his Doctor of Medicine degree?

2. What bison hunter and showman does the author describe performing in the Wild West in Introduction: The Beach?

3. In what year had Isaac been assigned to open the Texas Section of the new US Weather Bureau?

4. What sportswriter in New Jersey does the author discuss in Introduction: The Beach?

5. At the turn of the century, Galveston was a cosmopolitan boom town, poised to take on the same status as New Orleans or ___________, according to the author in Introduction: The Beach.

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