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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Galveston's highest point was how many feet above sea level in 1900?
(a) 4.2.
(b) 17.9.
(c) 8.7.
(d) 12.6.

2. The ship "The Louisiana" sailed from what location to Galveston during the hurricane of 1900?
(a) New Orleans, Louisiana.
(b) Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
(c) Gulfport, Mississippi.
(d) Port Arthur, Louisiana.

3. What were the names of Isaac Cline's parents?
(a) Bradley and Susan Cline.
(b) Thomas and Betsy Cline.
(c) Jacob and Mary Cline.
(d) Matthew and Harriet Cline.

4. What was the name of the steamship that Captain T. P. Halsey commanded during the storm?
(a) "The Colorado."
(b) "The Virginia."
(c) "The California."
(d) "The Louisiana."

5. In what year was Isaac Cline born?
(a) 1938.
(b) 1912.
(c) 1885.
(d) 1861.

6. Where was Isaac Cline born?
(a) Gardinerville, Montana.
(b) Mariposa, California.
(c) Phoenix, Oregon.
(d) Madisonville, Tennessee.

7. After his meteorology training with the US Army Signal Corps, Isaac Cline was first assigned to what location?
(a) Omaha, Nebraska.
(b) Little Rock, Arkansas.
(c) Tulsa, Oklahoma.
(d) Topeka, Kansas.

8. The narrative of Introduction: The Beach states that on the night of what date did Isaac Monroe Cline have an inexplicable feeling of foreboding?
(a) September 7, 1900.
(b) January 22, 1894.
(c) March 1, 1911.
(d) May 16, 1898.

9. What was the maiden name of Isaac Cline's wife?
(a) Cora Betsy Huffington.
(b) Cora Rebecca Rodgers.
(c) Cora May Ballew.
(d) Cora Sue Smith.

10. 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) Joseph Cline.
(b) Matthew Cline.
(c) Robert Cline.
(d) William Cline.

11. Christopher Columbus was commissioned to lead a fleet on a voyage where in 1502?
(a) The Bolivar Peninsula.
(b) Cameroon.
(c) Niger.
(d) Hispaniola.

12. According to the author in Part I: The Law of Storms, the first official notation of the storm was made by a Captain in his log on what date?
(a) August 27, 1900.
(b) June 18, 1901.
(c) July 4, 1899.
(d) September 20, 1902.

13. What Founding Father kept a lifelong weather journal, according to the author in Part I: The Law of Storms?
(a) Thomas Jefferson.
(b) John Adams.
(c) Benjamin Franklin.
(d) George Washington.

14. What politician wrote that Americans felt "four hundred percent bigger" than the year before in 1900?
(a) Chauncey Depew.
(b) Matthew Fontaine Maury.
(c) Henry Howgate.
(d) Teddy Roosevelt.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What sportswriter in New Jersey does the author discuss in Introduction: The Beach?

2. Isaac Cline arrived in Washington, DC to study at the US Signal Corps on what date?

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

4. In Part II: the Serpent's Coil, Isaac walked to the beach and noted the arrival of a large British steamship called _____________.

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

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