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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. 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?
(a) Unanimously rallies for Colombia.
(b) Unanimously rallies for Panama.
(c) Unanimously rallies for Mexico.
(d) Unanimously rallies for Nicaragua.
2. Panama is divided into how many sections for work purposes?
(a) 5.
(b) 4.
(c) 3.
(d) 2.
3. Ferdinand de Lesseps' name comes up repeatedly before the Morgan Committee through March 1902, reportedly like a what?
(a) Specter warning against Americans getting mired in ruin.
(b) Bond drive in support of the Panamal canal.
(c) Call to join the nation's project at Panama in support of the U.S. Navy.
(d) Advertisement drive promoting the Panama canal.
4. Company physicians agree on what as the best advice regarding the maladies associated with Panama?
(a) Stay out of the hot sun.
(b) Avoid getting wet to protect against night air.
(c) Eat no fruit.
(d) Leave the Isthmus quickly.
5. 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) 4/5 mile.
(b) 1 mile.
(c) 3/4 mile.
(d) 1/2 mile.
Short Answer Questions
1. What firm tows its first massive, steam-powered dredges to Colon in April of 1883?
2. Who rebuilds Colon after it goes up in flames, killing 18 and leaving some 8,000 homeless?
3. When do Theodore Perry Shonts and John Stevens land without ceremony at Colon?
4. When is the sanitation problem remedied at Colon when the town burns to the ground?
5. When, on March 29, 1885, Haitian-born, xenophobic Pedro Prestan and a handful of barefoot followers take six U.S. hostages and demand guns, an American consul orders compliance; what happens next?
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