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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 2, Chapter 13.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In a 1911 University of California Berkeley speech, former President Theodore Roosevelt gets laughs and applause when he maintains what?
(a) It was not initiating the canal that was the problem, it was seeing it through.
(b) The canal would not have started if he followed normal legislative channels.
(c) The canal started because he followed normal legislative channels.
(d) He did not go back to Panama because they would not let him drive another steam shovel.

2. U.S. delegate Commander Selfridge raises what issue regarding Nicaragua while at the 1879 Congris International d'Ytudes du Canal Interocyanique in Paris?
(a) Its history of typhoons and hurricanes.
(b) Its history of floods and earthquakes.
(c) Its history of volcanic disturbances and earthquakes.
(d) Its history of volcanic disturbances and typhoons.

3. Once digging the "Great Trench" starts at Emperador on January 20, 1882, it moves how quickly?
(a) Faster than expected in the dry season.
(b) Much faster than expected in the rainy season.
(c) Much slower than expected in the dry season.
(d) Slower than expected in the dry season.

4. Why, on November 1, 1903, do Manuel Amador and a colleague let Colonel James Shaler know Colombian troops are approaching?
(a) To get more arms and supplies brought in.
(b) To get more troops transported in for support.
(c) To get rolling stock safely moved to Panama City.
(d) To get more arms, supplies, and troops brought in.

5. In just over a decade in Panama, the French spend $287 million and expend how many lives?
(a) Some 42,000 lives.
(b) Some 22,000.
(c) Some 12,000.
(d) Some 32,000 lives.

Short Answer Questions

1. Both Napoleonic types, Philippe Banau-Varilla and William Nelson Cromwell are the "Panama Lobby" spokesmen, the latter a corporate lawyer with a mystery reputation who pulls strings, what is his motto?

2. Ferdinand de Lesseps lost a son and a wife to cholera in Egypt and invests $7.1 million in hospitals that a Canadian doctor declares the best in the tropics, and an American, decades later, places where?

3. Jaques de Reinach is a nominal villain in comparison to whom?

4. What does Theodore Roosevelt stress in his autobiography as to his action in Panama?.

5. What 100+ edition, 1,000+ page book holding Jews responsible for all woes appears in 1886, and when the Compagnie Universelle fails, whose "history" of the firm is a best seller in 1890?

(see the answer key)

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