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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 3, Chapter 19.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. A worker dies of bubonic plague on July 3, 1905, and William Crawford Gorgas immediately orders a campaign to eradicate what?
(a) Mosquitoes.
(b) Rats.
(c) Stray dogs and cats.
(d) All rodents.

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

3. When is the rainy season and how much is dropped along the line cutting through seven miles of swamps and marsh, beyond Gatun?
(a) July-November, 50-60 inches annually.
(b) June-October, 175-185 inches annually.
(c) May-September, 100-110 inches annually.
(d) May-December, 120-130 inches annually.

4. Going past Panama swamp in late 1879, Ferdinand de Lesseps and others reach a huge, iron bridge washed out by the worst recorded flood at Barbacoas, so they cross the river how to board another train?
(a) Using planks.
(b) By canoe.
(c) Swimming.
(d) By ferry.

5. A Panamanian National Constitutional Convention is held on January 15, 1904, and a National Assembly elects whom as President?
(a) Manuel Amador.
(b) Carlos Constantino Arosemena.
(c) Jose Agustin Arango.
(d) Maurice Banau-Varilla.

Short Answer Questions

1. John Walker asks Compagnie Nouvelle to verify it's franchises and title in Pa nama in April 1901, gets no reply by June, and has William Cromwell ask directly how much his client wants. They reply how?

2. The Wallace/Stevens departmental system is replaced by what?

3. In late 1879, Ferdinand de Lesseps initiates publication of what propaganda organ?

4. Manuel Amador looking to improve sanitation and end centuries of plague, invests what amount of U.S. $10 million payment into urgent public works projects?

5. Crews respond by competing how to top the published excavation statistics?

(see the answer key)

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