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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part I: The Law of Storms.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What term refers to a wind that blows with the direction of travel?
(a) Headwind.
(b) Pushwind.
(c) Nonlinear dynamics.
(d) Tailwind.

2. The author writes that low pressure lingered over ___________, and the air was heavy with moisture, causing trillions of water molecules to heat up.
(a) Cuba.
(b) Niger.
(c) Cameroon.
(d) Morocco.

3. Who, flanked by his Rough Riders, campaigned for the vice presidency in Introduction: The Beach?
(a) Chauncey Depew.
(b) Henry Howgate.
(c) Matthew Fontaine Maury.
(d) Teddy Roosevelt.

4. In August of what year did Columbus' ships sail on smooth waters under blue skies when an observer sounded the alarm after sighting huge swells just ahead, according to the author in Part I: The Law of Storms?
(a) 1583.
(b) 1654.
(c) 1492.
(d) 1527.

5. What term refers to a wind that blows against the direction of travel?
(a) Headwind.
(b) Tailwind.
(c) Pushwind.
(d) Nonlinear dynamics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was a nationalist movement by the "Righteous Harmony Society" in China between 1898 and 1901?

2. When did the Second Anglo-Boer War begin?

3. What was the name of Isaac Cline's younger brother who lived with his family and worked for the weather service as an observer?

4. What physicist improved upon Galileo's device and created the first barometer?

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?

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