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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 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?
(a) 10-1 odds against Panama into a narrow 42-34 win.
(b) 75-1 odds against Panama into a narrow 42-34 win.
(c) 100-1 odds against Panama into a narrow 42-34 win.
(d) 50-1 odds against Panama into a narrow 42-34 win.

2. 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) 3/4 mile.
(b) 1 mile.
(c) 1/2 mile.
(d) 4/5 mile.

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) Theodore Perry Shonts.
(b) William N. Cromwell.
(c) John Findley Wallace.
(d) Charles F. Magoon.

4. John Stevens feels the Panama Canal can be completed by January 1914, but doubts a sea- level version can be prior to what year?
(a) 1916.
(b) 1924.
(c) 1919.
(d) 1921.

5. Company physicians agree on what as the best advice regarding the maladies associated with Panama?
(a) Avoid getting wet to protect against night air.
(b) Leave the Isthmus quickly.
(c) Eat no fruit.
(d) Stay out of the hot sun.

Short Answer Questions

1. On March 10, 1902, the Morgan Committee reports out the Hepburn Bill favorably, recommending what?

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

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

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. When is the sanitation problem remedied at Colon when the town burns to the ground?

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