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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Christopher Columbus was commissioned to lead a fleet on a voyage where in 1502?
(a) Niger.
(b) The Bolivar Peninsula.
(c) Cameroon.
(d) Hispaniola.
2. When did the Second Anglo-Boer War end?
(a) 1908.
(b) 1902.
(c) 1915.
(d) 1906.
3. Just prior to the storm, there was a heat wave in the United States in which how many people died?
(a) 30.
(b) 65.
(c) 14.
(d) 147.
4. What school dean recommended Isaac Cline to study at the US Signal Corps?
(a) Dean Bruner.
(b) Dean Frank.
(c) Dean Jones.
(d) Dean Williams.
5. In Part II: the Serpent's Coil, the author writes that the big storm entered the Caribbean on what date?
(a) August 31, 1900.
(b) May12, 1901.
(c) July 18, 1898.
(d) October 1, 1899.
Short Answer Questions
1. The ship "The Louisiana" sailed from what location to Galveston during the hurricane of 1900?
2. What was the warmest month on record from the upper Mississippi Valley to the Ohio Valley?
3. In what year did Louisa Rollfing marry her husband?
4. In Part I: The Law of Storms, the author writes that the storm began gathering over the African highlands east of _____________.
5. Isaac Cline's new house was located how many blocks north of the Gulf?
Short Essay Questions
1. What associations did Isaac Cline have with the medical profession? How did this correlate to meteorology?
2. When did the storm that hit Galveston enter the Caribbean, according to the author in Part II: the Serpent's Coil? What conditions led it to grow there?
3. What conditions made the storm that hit Galveston form and grow?
4. Where did the storm that hit Galveston begin forming? What were atmospheric pressure conditions like in the US at this time?
5. How does the author describe Joseph Cline's weather observations on September 6, 1900?
6. How does the author describe the Rollfings? When did they marry?
7. How did the actions of the Weather Bureau affect sea captains such as T.P. Halsey?
8. Who was assigned as bureau forecast official in Cuba? How was this meteorologist described by the author?
9. Whom did Isaac Cline contact on the morning of September 8, 1900? Why?
10. How were the Midwest and Gulf of Mexico affected by the heat wave described in Part I: The Law of Storms?
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