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

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

3. Some mortality estimates go up to 75% among French immigrants and beds are reported to be at such a premium that the dying have been placed where?
(a) On the floor in the basement.
(b) In coffins to await their end.
(c) Outside the hospital on the ground.
(d) On the railway platform to await a train to the cemetary when they die.

4. Jaques de Reinach is the "Micros" article's inside source, but Ydouard Drumont denies testifying, unless he is pardoned for what type of conviction keeping him in prison?
(a) Manslaughter.
(b) Libel.
(c) Burglary.
(d) Theft.

5. A Saint Gotthard Tunnel engineer, Ribourt, warned the 1879 Congris International d'Ytudes du Canal Interocyanique that, even 24 hours a day, the Wyse plan including a tunnel would take how long?
(a) No less than 9 years.
(b) Noless than 7 years.
(c) No less than 11 years.
(d) No less than 10 years.

Short Answer 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?

2. Ferdinand de Lesseps is from a family entrenched in the diplomatic services, which he enters at age 19, and he becomes interested in construction of canals when?

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

4. What is U.S. delegate Admiral Ammen's view of the American canal plan, given at the 1879 Congris International d'Ytudes du Canal Interocyanique, with a 1,900 foot viaduct over the Chagres River, 12 locks at each end, and costing $94.6 million?

5. Three weeks following the arrival of news of the Colon fire in Paris, Ferdinand de Lesseps achieves the ultimate honor, induction where?

(see the answer key)

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