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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. Just prior to the storm, there was a heat wave in the United States in which how many people died?
(a) 30.
(b) 14.
(c) 147.
(d) 65.

2. Who was the Chief of the U S Weather Bureau in 1900?
(a) Henry Howgate.
(b) Chauncey Depew.
(c) Judson Palmer.
(d) Willis Moore.

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

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

5. What concept was put forth in Perils of a Restless Planet?
(a) Tailwind.
(b) Pushwind.
(c) Headwind.
(d) Nonlinear dynamics.

Short Answer Questions

1. As Captain Halsey continued on his journey in Part II: the Serpent's Coil, he estimated the wind at what speed when he had probably neared the heart of the storm?

2. What refers to the lowest portion of Earth's atmosphere?

3. In what year was Isaac Cline born?

4. When Joseph Cline made his weather observations on September 6th, what was the temperature?

5. In what year had Isaac been assigned to open the Texas Section of the new US Weather Bureau?

Short Essay Questions

1. What were the predictions by the US Weather Bureau for the storm when it hit Florida?

2. Whom did Isaac Cline contact on the morning of September 8, 1900? Why?

3. According to the author, for what reason do some tropical disturbances cross the Atlantic, but others do not?

4. 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?

5. How does the author describe the Rollfings? When did they marry?

6. What geographical and social elements set up the city of Galveston for major casualties in the event of a hurricane in 1900?

7. How did Isaac Cline recall his childhood in Part I: The Law of Storms? Where did he grow up?

8. What did the weather readings tell Isaac Cline on the morning of September 8, 1900? How did Isaac feel about the situation?

9. What recent scandal was Isaac Cline unaware of within the Signal Corps when he entered training in Part I: The Law of Storms?

10. How does the author describe Joseph Cline's weather observations on September 6, 1900?

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