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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. Isaac Cline's new house was located how many blocks north of the Gulf?
2. Just prior to the storm, there was a heat wave in the United States in which how many people died?
3. In what year was Isaac Cline born?
4. After his meteorology training with the US Army Signal Corps, Isaac Cline was first assigned to what location?
5. On September 1, 1900, the Rollfing family made their last payment on what?
Short Essay Questions
1. According to the author, for what reason do some tropical disturbances cross the Atlantic, but others do not?
2. Whom did Isaac Cline contact on the morning of September 8, 1900? Why?
3. How were the Midwest and Gulf of Mexico affected by the heat wave described in Part I: The Law of Storms?
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 introduce Isaac Cline in Introduction: The Beach? What led to Cline's training at the US Signal Corps?
6. How did Isaac Cline recall his childhood in Part I: The Law of Storms? Where did he grow up?
7. What had Isaac Cline considered as a profession before going into weather?
8. What recent scandal was Isaac Cline unaware of within the Signal Corps when he entered training in Part I: The Law of Storms?
9. How did the actions of the Weather Bureau affect sea captains such as T.P. Halsey?
10. What conditions made the storm that hit Galveston form and grow?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss Isaac's career after the US Signal Corps and prior to his arrival in Galveston. How long did Isaac work in Little Rock? Where did he transfer next? Also discuss the storm developments which took place in St. John. How did the atmospheric conditions in this location serve to strengthen the storm?
Essay Topic 2
Why did William B. Stockman send a report to Washington stating that the storm had passed without dangerous winds in Cuba? What did Stockman serve to gain by doing so? What were the repercussions of his actions?
Essay Topic 3
Describe and discuss Rabbi Henry Cohen and the devastation of Ritter's Café in the narrative. How many individuals died in the collapse of Ritter's Café? What information does the author relate of these people? How did panic begin to spread in the city? What did the citizens do?
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