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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 1, Chapter 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) The survey requirement of the Wyse Concession is void.
(b) He will depart for Panama with a team of experts by October 1879.
(c) He will complete the survey required by the Wyse Concession.
(d) A double return within three years is guaranteed.

2. Company physicians agree on what as the best advice regarding the maladies associated with Panama?
(a) Leave the Isthmus quickly.
(b) Avoid getting wet to protect against night air.
(c) Stay out of the hot sun.
(d) Eat no fruit.

3. 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) A. G. Menocal.
(c) Gaston Blanchet.
(d) Armand Rycus.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In late 1879, a large entourage sails to Panama arriving in what season?

2. In late 1879, Ferdinand de Lesseps initiates publication of what propaganda organ?

3. In what way does author David McCullough find all early 19th-century canal plans preposterous?

4. When Jules Dingler quits upon approaching mental and physical collapse and Maurice Hutin steps in for a month before resigning also, who becomes acting head of the entire effort?

5. 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?

(see the answer key)

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