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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. French engineers at Panama look on American colleagues as merely adroit at improvisation, but find making do with what is available under pressure difficult and that Suez was too easy, as warned by whom?
(a) Armand Rycus.
(b) Gaston Blanchet.
(c) Baron de Lypinay.
(d) A. G. Menocal.

2. What does the public prosecutor, Jules Quesnay de Beaurepaire, propose in October 1892?
(a) Both a civil suit and criminal trial.
(b) Improbable cause for civil or criminal action.
(c) Civil suit for damages.
(d) Criminal trial.

3. Chapter 8 summarizes what evolves in the courtrooms and subsequent to massive corporate collapse that affects how many French investors?
(a) 500,000.
(b) Over 1 million.
(c) 750,000.
(d) 800,000.

4. In November 1881, who dies the apparent victim of malaria, the most common tropical disease?
(a) Henri Bionnr.
(b) Lieutenant Reclus.
(c) Abel Couvreux.
(d) Gaston Blanchet.

5. In a special message to Congress on January 4, 1904, Theodore Roosevelt claims what nation violates a U.S. mandate to build the canal, the "great design" of the 1846 treaty to secure its construction?
(a) Panama.
(b) Nicaragua.
(c) Colombia.
(d) Mexico.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Phillippe Banau-Varilla's Cincinnati civic speech of building a shorter, cheaper alternate to Nicaragua, glosses over mudslides, disease, his stock holdings, and adds what new theme to the debate?

3. Which survivors enjoy lifelong immunity from the disease that comes and goes in waves?

4. Why is it nearly impossible in the early stages of canal construction to maintain an adequate work force?

5. A sea-level canal built at Panama is just impossible, and using 1880s equipment, the lock canal approach maximizes what?

(see the answer key)

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