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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 1, Chapter 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. French engineers at Panama look on American colleagues as merely adroit at improvisation, but find making do with what is available under pressure difficult and that Suez was too easy, as warned by whom?
(a) Baron de Lypinay.
(b) Armand Rycus.
(c) A. G. Menocal.
(d) Gaston Blanchet.

2. According to newspapers, why does Le-Shu-Chang receive the longest applause when the opportunity to rise for recognition at the 1879 Congris International d'Ytudes du Canal Interocyanique comes?
(a) China was recognized for constructng the 999-room palace in Lhasa, Tibet.
(b) China was recognized for constructing the large dams and the Great Wall by engineers.
(c) Because China was expected to provide the labor to dig the canal.
(d) The Chinese delegation had come the farthest distance.

3. A huge dam taming the Chagres changes the slope, increasing the "cube" excavation by how much?
(a) 30%.
(b) 75%.
(c) 100%.
(d) 60%.

4. An initial stock offering after the1879 Congris International d'Ytudes du Canal Interocyanique goes poorly, so Ferdinand de Lesseps gives back investors' funds, has another issue offered, and declares what?
(a) A double return within three years is guaranteed.
(b) He will complete the survey required by the Wyse Concession.
(c) He will depart for Panama with a team of experts by October 1879.
(d) The survey requirement of the Wyse Concession is void.

5. What promise does Ferdinand de Lesseps keep on January 1, 1880?
(a) Strikes the first blow for the Panama.
(b) Leads the New Year's parade through the capital.
(c) Cuts the ribbon at the location for the Panama Canal.
(d) Tosses a lucky franc into the bay near Panama City.

Short Answer Questions

1. Due to continuing slides, the "total cube" of the cut steadily increases, until it appears necessary for the top of the cut to be how far wide to achieve a mathematically stable 1:4 ratio?

2. When is the rainy season and how much is dropped along the line cutting through seven miles of swamps and marsh, beyond Gatun?

3. Who is the Turr Syndicate directed by?

4. Days after Congris International d'Ytudes du Canal Interocyanique of 1879 concludes, Ferdinand de Lesseps is behind 270 rich investors who are to receive what upon a firm being legally established?

5. Panama is divided into how many sections for work purposes?

(see the answer key)

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