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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 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?
(a) 14.
(b) 24.
(c) 19.
(d) 6.

2. Sen. Spooner offers a Hepburn Bill amendment authorizing the President to acquire the Panama property and concessions for no more than $40 million, only if Colombia relinquishes what?
(a) A perpetual twelve-mile sovereignty zone.
(b) A perpetual six-mile sovereignty zone.
(c) A perpetual three-mile sovereignty zone,
(d) A perpetual nine-mile sovereignty zone.

3. 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 say they did not get Walker's query and will get back to 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) Offended by Cromwell's blunt cable, they fire him.

4. Lieutenant Lucien Napoleon Bonaparte Wyse sails back to New York in early 1879 to buy the Panama Railroad Company, but its president is the major stockholder with the leverage to demand what price?
(a) $300 per share, three times the market value.
(b) $100 per share, full market value.
(c) $400 per share, four times the market value.
(d) $200 per share, two times the market value.

5. Sea supremacy has always been key to national and commercial greatness, and Theodore Roosevelt publishes The Naval War of 1812 while?
(a) President.
(b) A graduate student.
(c) An undergraduate student.
(d) A high school student.

Short Answer Questions

1. The Morgan Committee rejects the Walker Commission recommendations, the Senate debates the issues for two weeks, and Mt. Pelye's explosion and a Nicaraguan stamp turn odds how?

2. Panama Patchwork is a publication by James Stanley Gilbert containing what?

3. Lieutenant Lucien Napoleon Bonaparte Wyse negotiates a contract with Colombian President Aquileo Parra on March 23, 1878, including what conditions?

4. What do closed subcommittees at the 1879 Congris International d'Ytudes du Canal Interocyanique in Paris establish that the Nicaragua canal route is?

5. A sea-level canal built at Panama is just impossible, and using 1880s equipment, the lock canal approach maximizes what?

(see the answer key)

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