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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. When Jules Dingler quits upon approaching mental and physical collapse and Maurice Hutin steps in for a month before resigning also, who becomes acting head of the entire effort?
(a) William Kimball.
(b) Alexander de Duponte.
(c) Phillipe Bunau-Varilla.
(d) Jaques Jonett.

2. When is the sanitation problem remedied at Colon when the town burns to the ground?
(a) March 31, 1885.
(b) March 30, 1885.
(c) April 1, 1885.
(d) March 29, 1885.

3. 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.

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

5. Who orders commissaries established immediately, even if this will violate agreements with Panama?
(a) Theodore Roosevelt.
(b) Theodore Perry Shonts.
(c) John Stevens.
(d) William Howard Taft.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

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?

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

(see the answer key)

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