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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 3, Chapter 17.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. On March 10, 1902, the Morgan Committee reports out the Hepburn Bill favorably, recommending what?
(a) 7-4 a Nicaragua canal.
(b) 6-5 a Panama canal.
(c) 9-2 a Panama canal.
(d) 10-1 a Nicaragua canal.

2. What firm tows its first massive, steam-powered dredges to Colon in April of 1883?
(a) Herne, Slaven & Co. (later American Contracting and Dredging Co.).
(b) Compagnie Nouvelle de Canal de Panama.
(c) Compagnie Universal de Panama.
(d) Slaven & Herne Dredging & Contracting, Inc.

3. Some mortality estimates go up to 75% among French immigrants and beds are reported to be at such a premium that the dying have been placed where?
(a) On the floor in the basement.
(b) On the railway platform to await a train to the cemetary when they die.
(c) Outside the hospital on the ground.
(d) In coffins to await their end.

4. Due to continuing slides, the "total cube" of the cut steadily increases, until it appears necessary for the top of the cut to be how far wide to achieve a mathematically stable 1:4 ratio?
(a) 1/2 mile.
(b) 3/4 mile.
(c) 1 mile.
(d) 4/5 mile.

5. Chairman Morgan appears happy questioning witnesses in February 1902, and his badgering of Ydouard Lampry, the Compagnie Nouvelle spokesman creates what?
(a) Overblown headlines, but legitimate substance to report.
(b) Overblown headlines and lies reported.
(c) Overblown headlines but no substance to report.
(d) Legitimate headlines, no substance to be reported.

Short Answer Questions

1. While dredging predominates in the lowlands, steam shovels, picks, shovels, and what else are key in the uplands?

2. Who rebuilds Colon after it goes up in flames, killing 18 and leaving some 8,000 homeless?

3. Julesa Dingler restores order and confidence upon arrival, distributes the workload, purges the disloyal, and formulates what?

4. The first event after the Morgan Commission that changes in favor of Panama, is Theodore Roosevelt reading news of how an audience, of civil engineers listening to Irving M. Scott in New York, does what?

5. Company physicians agree on what as the best advice regarding the maladies associated with Panama?

(see the answer key)

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