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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part IV: Cataclysm.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where did Isaac Cline earn his Doctor of Medicine degree?
(a) The University of Alaska.
(b) The University of Virginia.
(c) The University of Arkansas.
(d) The University of Montana.

2. Who was an English-Indian scientist and merchant captain who coined the name cyclone for tropical storms?
(a) Chauncey Depew.
(b) John Blagden.
(c) Henry Piddington.
(d) William Dampier.

3. Where was Dr. Sam Young's located?
(a) The West End.
(b) East 65th St.
(c) Bath and P ½..
(d) Smith and Vine.

4. When did the Second Anglo-Boer War begin?
(a) 1892.
(b) 1885.
(c) 1906.
(d) 1899.

5. The wind was measured at what speed from the Galveston weather station in Part IV: Cataclysm?
(a) 135 mph.
(b) 160 mph.
(c) 110 mph.
(d) 95 mph.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year was the chief financial manager of the Signal Corps arrested for embezzling nearly a quarter of a million dollars?

2. What General of the US Signal Corps wanted to staff his department with the best in Part I: The Law of Storms?

3. In Introduction: The Beach, Isaac sent a telegram to the Central Office where advising them that the water was high and there were opposing winds?

4. In Part II: the Serpent's Coil, the author writes that the big storm entered the Caribbean on what date?

5. Which of Louise Hopkins's siblings arrived home first?

(see the answer key)

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