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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part II: the Serpent's Coil.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In what year did Louisa Rollfing marry her husband?
(a) 1883.
(b) 1888.
(c) 1893.
(d) 1885.

3. What physicist improved upon Galileo's device and created the first barometer?
(a) Evangelista Torricelli.
(b) Edmund Halley.
(c) Ernest Zebrowski.
(d) Chauncey Depew.

4. Chief Stockman was irritated that the Cuban forecasters had referred to the storm as _____________.
(a) A blizzard.
(b) A tornado.
(c) A tsunami.
(d) A cyclone.

5. What was the name of Isaac Cline's younger brother who lived with his family and worked for the weather service as an observer?
(a) Matthew Cline.
(b) Robert Cline.
(c) William Cline.
(d) Joseph Cline.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. On Wednesday, the Weather Bureau was predicting that the storm would move north and land in New England by what day?

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

4. Who proved that air had mass, according to the author in Part I: The Law of Storms?

5. What was the name of the chief financial manager of the Signal Corps who was arrested for embezzling nearly a quarter of a million dollars?

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