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

2. What firm tows its first massive, steam-powered dredges to Colon in April of 1883?
(a) Herne, Slaven & Co. (later American Contracting and Dredging Co.).
(b) Slaven & Herne Dredging & Contracting, Inc.
(c) Compagnie Universal de Panama.
(d) Compagnie Nouvelle de Canal de Panama.

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

4. 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) French engineer officials.
(c) Railroad officials.
(d) U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

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

5. The ICC's new Chairman, Theodore Perry Shonts, is best described how?

(see the answer key)

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