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

2. What is the main issue impeding fumigation in U.S. facilities?
(a) Lack of newsprint to seal buildings.
(b) Lack of devices to dispense fumes.
(c) Climate is too humid.
(d) Lack of chemical fumigants.

3. Although Lieutenant Lucien Napoleon-Bonaparte Wyse completes his trip to Bogota, Colombia, in mid-May of 1878, and subsequently conducts a preliminary trip to Nicaragua, where does the lieutenant travel next?
(a) New Orleans.
(b) Washington, D.C.
(c) New York.
(d) San Francisco.

4. The Wallace/Stevens departmental system is replaced by what?
(a) Geological divisions with one atop another.
(b) Celestial, with each independent of another.
(c) Geographic divisions as in the French period.
(d) Multiple-level class system as in Mexico.

5. Armand Rousseau's report declares abandoning the Panama project will harm French prestige and advocates what?
(a) Continue with the sea-level plan.
(b) Keep the sea-level plan and adopt the lottery proposal.
(c) Abandon both the sea-level plan for a lock proposal, and that a lottery is insufficient.
(d) Adopt the lottery proposal, but abandon the sea-level plan.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. The great dam at Gatun, that is 15 times wider at the base than it is high, is how difficult to construct?

3. Ferdinand de Lesseps has declares publicly that 20 ships daily shall pass via the canal by 1890, and what occurs to the Compagnie Universelle on February 4, 1889?

4. An illustrated, anti-Semitic daily, La Libre Parole receives attention in September 1892 as it starts featuring exposes of the "Jewish plot in Panama" and the Minister of Justice orders what?

5. Before leaving Panama for New York en route to Paris, Ferdinand de Lesseps dismisses all talk regarding the deadly jungle climate and maintains what about the task?

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