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

2. On March 10, 1902, the Morgan Committee reports out the Hepburn Bill favorably, recommending what?
(a) 7-4 a Nicaragua canal.
(b) 9-2 a Panama canal.
(c) 10-1 a Nicaragua canal.
(d) 6-5 a Panama canal.

3. The "Great Panic" in the Canal Zone results in what?
(a) A demand for outgoing boats that cannot be kept up with.
(b) An exodus of service personnel back to their homelands.
(c) An exodus of Panamanians to Nicaragua.
(d) A demand for outgoing trains that cannot be kept up with.

4. 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?
(a) They cannot reply until after the annual July meeting.
(b) They say they did not get Walker's query and will get back to him.
(c) Offended by Cromwell's blunt cable, they fire him.
(d) They state they are gathering the file, meanwhile have him make an offer.

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. 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?

2. Since William Nelson Cromwell has White House access, which John Tyler Morgan reportedly hates him for, what does Cromwell view that as proof of?

3. George W. Goethals allows employees to air grievances where?

4. No sitting President has left the country before, so what is the reaction when Theodore Roosevelt announces he will visit Panama?

5. In November 1881, who dies the apparent victim of malaria, the most common tropical disease?

(see the answer key)

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