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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In Part IV: Cataclysm, a telegram was sent from the weather station where to the Chief of the US Weather Bureau in Washington, DC, informing him that they had lost all contact with the Galveston office?
(a) Miami, Florida.
(b) St. Louis, Missouri.
(c) Phoenix, Arizona.
(d) Houston, Texas.

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

4. How many people took shelter in Judson Palmer's house in Part IV: Cataclysm?
(a) 23.
(b) 34.
(c) 17.
(d) 8.

5. What bison hunter and showman does the author describe performing in the Wild West in Introduction: The Beach?
(a) Buffalo Bill Cody.
(b) Henry Piddington.
(c) Teddy Roosevelt.
(d) Aristotle.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Part III: Spectacle, Isaac Cline drove the beach from one end to the other shouting at people to do what?

2. What concept was put forth in Perils of a Restless Planet?

3. Who was an English-Indian scientist and merchant captain who coined the name cyclone for tropical storms?

4. Just prior to the storm, there was a heat wave in the United States in which how many people died?

5. In what year did Isaac Cline join the meteorology training program of the US Army Signal Corps?

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