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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. The cream of the crop of 19th-century French engineers are trained at what two institutions (the most brilliant at the former, and only its top graduates at the latter)?
(a) Ycole des Ponts et Paris and Ycole Polytechnic et Chausyes.
(b) Universite Polytechnique et Paris and Ycole des Ponts et Chausyes.
(c) Ycole des Ponts et Chausyes and Ycole Polytechnique.
(d) Ycole Polytechnique and Ycole des Ponts et Chausyes.

2. Why is it nearly impossible in the early stages of canal construction to maintain an adequate work force?
(a) Language differences.
(b) High death toll.
(c) High illness rate.
(d) Frequent turnover.

3. 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) Gaston Blanchet.
(b) Armand Rycus.
(c) A. G. Menocal.
(d) Baron de Lypinay.

4. Where does Manuel Amador send a coded telegram to on October 28, 1903?
(a) New York.
(b) Panama City.
(c) Washington, D.C.
(d) San Francisco.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. In just over a decade in Panama, the French spend $287 million and expend how many lives?

3. The Compagnie Universelle incorporates on March 3, 1881, with whom as officers?

4. What do closed subcommittees at the 1879 Congris International d'Ytudes du Canal Interocyanique in Paris establish that the Nicaragua canal route is?

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?

(see the answer key)

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