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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part V: Strange News.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Who wrote Perils of a Restless Planet?
(a) Joe Amando.
(b) Ernest Zebrowski.
(c) Henry Piddington.
(d) Chauncey Depew.

4. Who was eight months pregnant and saw her house collapse on her husband and three-year-old son?
(a) Mrs. Grimes.
(b) Mrs. Thompson.
(c) Mrs. Englund.
(d) Mrs. Heideman.

5. Whose controlling nature had resulted in a schism between Cuban and US meteorologists?
(a) Rabbi Henry Cohen.
(b) Evangelista Torricelli.
(c) Colonel William Sterett.
(d) Chief Willis Moore's.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the warmest month on record from the upper Mississippi Valley to the Ohio Valley?

2. What tamale vendor had an asterisk by his name, indicating he was an untrustworthy businessman in Galveston records, according to the author in Introduction: The Beach?

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

4. Who was the founder and first President of American Association for the Advancement of Science?

5. Christopher Columbus was commissioned to lead a fleet on a voyage where in 1502?

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