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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. "The Hero" is a reference to the esteem surrounding Ferdinand de Lesseps at what point in history?
(a) Upon the 1869 opening of his lockless Suez Canal.
(b) His foundation of the Sociyty Civile Internationale du Canal Interocyanique de Darien.
(c) During the ten-month 1870-1871 Franco-German War.
(d) In 1875 when he announces his interest in an interoceanic canal.

2. Phillippe Banau-Varilla goes to the "Lion's Cage," the home of John T. Morgan, and it almost comes to blows when Morgan terms Panama as what?
(a) A "rotten project."
(b) "Panama paranoia."
(c) The "endless mudslide."
(d) "The French Connection."

3. Why, on November 1, 1903, do Manuel Amador and a colleague let Colonel James Shaler know Colombian troops are approaching?
(a) To get more arms and supplies brought in.
(b) To get more troops transported in for support.
(c) To get rolling stock safely moved to Panama City.
(d) To get more arms, supplies, and troops brought in.

4. On May 2, 1902, the second key swaying event following the Morgan Committee reports is Mount Pelye exploding on Martinique; how far away and how many killed?
(a) 1,500 miles from Nicaragua, 30,000 killed.
(b) 1,500 miles from Nicaragua, 3,000 killed.
(c) 150 miles from Nicaragua, 3,000 killed.
(d) 3,000 miles from Nicaragua, 15,000 killed.

5. Theodore Roosevelt times his visit to experience it when?
(a) Height of rainy season.
(b) Between Christmas and New Year's Eve.
(c) Panama's Revolution Day.
(d) Height of dry season.

Short Answer Questions

1. Upon their arrival in Panama in late 1879, Ferdinand de Lesseps and his group take the train into the jungle and enter the valley of what wide, brown, looping waterway?

2. What promise does Ferdinand de Lesseps keep on January 1, 1880?

3. George W. Goethals starts a weekly newspaper, the Canal Record, for what purpose?

4. Which delegate, so eager not to miss the 1879 Congris International d'Ytudes du Canal Interocyanique opening remarks, leaves his bags behind and has to purchase appropriate attire and call a barber in?

5. Ferdinand de Lesseps briefly speaks at the Technical Commission's initial business session on January 6, 1880, then leaves it to rubber stamp what he wants in a 300-page report calling for what?

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