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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. A huge dam taming the Chagres changes the slope, increasing the "cube" excavation by how much?
(a) 30%.
(b) 100%.
(c) 75%.
(d) 60%.

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

3. 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) 100-1 odds against Panama into a narrow 42-34 win.
(c) 50-1 odds against Panama into a narrow 42-34 win.
(d) 75-1 odds against Panama into a narrow 42-34 win.

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

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?
(a) Cmdr. William Connor moves the gunboat Tennessee and takes control.
(b) Cmdr. George Burt moves the gunboat Shenandoah and takes control.
(c) Cmdr. Theodore F. Kane moves the gunboat Galena and takes control.
(d) Cmdr. Joseph L. Dow moves the gunboat Wachusett and takes control.

Short Answer Questions

1. What firm tows its first massive, steam-powered dredges to Colon in April of 1883?

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

3. 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?

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

5. Panama is divided into how many sections for work purposes?

(see the answer key)

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