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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. Who rebuilds Colon after it goes up in flames, killing 18 and leaving some 8,000 homeless?
(a) "Seabees" (construction battalions of the Civil Engineer Corps of the U.S. Navy).
(b) U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
(c) Railroad officials.
(d) French engineer officials.

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

3. Julesa Dingler restores order and confidence upon arrival, distributes the workload, purges the disloyal, and formulates what?
(a) A plan to eliminate requirement for high laborer requirement.
(b) A design for huge dam with 30% steeper banks.
(c) The only French master plan to be had in Panama.
(d) First of several French master plans in Panama.

4. 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.

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) 3/4 mile.
(c) 1 mile.
(d) 1/2 mile.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When do Theodore Perry Shonts and John Stevens land without ceremony at Colon?

3. Who orders commissaries established immediately, even if this will violate agreements with Panama?

4. 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?

5. The Morgan Committee rejects the Walker Commission recommendations, the Senate debates the issues for two weeks, and Mt. Pelye's explosion and a Nicaraguan stamp turn odds how?

(see the answer key)

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