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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What refers to the study of weather conditions averaged over a period of time?
(a) Climatology.
(b) Biology.
(c) Stormology.
(d) Ecology.

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

3. Isaac Cline had considered becoming what before he was invited to study climatology?
(a) Park ranger.
(b) Attorney.
(c) Dentist.
(d) Animal trainer.

4. In Part II: the Serpent's Coil, the author writes that the big storm entered the Caribbean on what date?
(a) July 18, 1898.
(b) August 31, 1900.
(c) May12, 1901.
(d) October 1, 1899.

5. In Introduction: The Beach, Isaac had warnings from the central Weather Bureau that what location had been battered by a severe tropical storm?
(a) Ecuador.
(b) Spain.
(c) Hawaii.
(d) Cuba.

6. Where did Isaac Cline first meet his wife?
(a) Aurora, Illinois.
(b) Abilene, Texas.
(c) Albany, New York.
(d) Anchorage, Alaska.

7. 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?
(a) Joe Amando.
(b) Ernest Zebrowski.
(c) Bat Masterson.
(d) Henry Piddington.

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

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

10. How far from Galveston was the hurricane when Joseph Cline made his weather observations on September 6th?
(a) 475 miles.
(b) 550 miles.
(c) 200 miles.
(d) 800 miles.

11. At the turn of the century, Galveston was a cosmopolitan boom town, poised to take on the same status as New Orleans or ___________, according to the author in Introduction: The Beach.
(a) San Francisco.
(b) Chicago.
(c) Seattle.
(d) Denver.

12. In what year had Isaac been assigned to open the Texas Section of the new US Weather Bureau?
(a) 1919.
(b) 1907.
(c) 1899.
(d) 1891.

13. The author writes that low pressure lingered over ___________, and the air was heavy with moisture, causing trillions of water molecules to heat up.
(a) Morocco.
(b) Cuba.
(c) Cameroon.
(d) Niger.

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

15. 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) Joseph Cline.
(c) William Cline.
(d) Robert Cline.

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. In what year was Isaac Cline born?

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

4. Whose controlling nature had resulted in a schism between Cuban and US meteorologists?

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

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