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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. What takes place subsequent to the arrival of Theodore Perry Shonts and John Stevens in Panama?
(a) Shonts becomes the irritating, authoritative master of the isthmus.
(b) Stevens becomes the irritating, authoritative master of the isthmus.
(c) Stevens becomes the easygoing, relaxed master of the isthmus.
(d) Shonts becomes the easygoing, relaxed master of the isthmus..

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

3. John Stevens is scheduled to accompany William H. Taft to the Philippines to advise on railroad construction, when who urges John Stevens to go to Panama as John Findley Wallace's successor?
(a) Charles F. Magoon.
(b) John Findley Wallace.
(c) Theodore Perry Shonts.
(d) William N. Cromwell.

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?
(a) Unanimously rallies for Colombia.
(b) Unanimously rallies for Mexico.
(c) Unanimously rallies for Panama.
(d) Unanimously rallies for Nicaragua.

5. The ICC's new Chairman, Theodore Perry Shonts, is best described how?
(a) Relaxed.
(b) Authoritative.
(c) Easygoing.
(d) Tollerant.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. A huge dam taming the Chagres changes the slope, increasing the "cube" excavation by how much?

3. John Stevens feels the Panama Canal can be completed by January 1914, but doubts a sea- level version can be prior to what year?

4. On May 2, 1902, the second key swaying event following the Morgan Committee reports is Mount Pelye exploding on Martinique; how far away and how many killed?

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

(see the answer key)

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