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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. 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?
(a) Panama's lack of volcanoes.
(b) Panama's lack of pending revolution.
(c) Nicaragua's recurring forest fires.
(d) Nicaragua's political uneasiness.

2. A Compagnie Nouvelle du Canal de Panama is incorporated on October 20, 1894 and the liquidator extends the Wyse Concession through what year?
(a) 1903.
(b) 1900.
(c) 1901.
(d) 1902.

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

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

5. What does Theodore Roosevelt stress in his autobiography as to his action in Panama?.
(a) He had to take quick action, or none at all.
(b) It was not impulsive, the situation called for quick action.
(c) Admits in hindsight it was impulsive.
(d) Maintains it was not impulsive.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does the public prosecutor, Jules Quesnay de Beaurepaire, propose in October 1892?

3. A Saint Gotthard Tunnel engineer, Ribourt, warned the 1879 Congris International d'Ytudes du Canal Interocyanique that, even 24 hours a day, the Wyse plan including a tunnel would take how long?

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

5. The 1879 Congris International d'Ytudes du Canal Interocyanique Technical Committe hears proposals for how many passage sites before focusing on the Americans' Nicaraguan and the Wyse plans?

(see the answer key)

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