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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. Ferdinand de Lesseps resells lottery bonds on Nov. 15, 1887, and says Gustave Eiffel will build two huge lock flights, gates, and apparatus to lift ships over the Chagres at flood stage that are what?
(a) Unlike anything previously designed.
(b) Modifications for Suez a decade prior.
(c) Modifications to dams used in Holland.
(d) Modifications for Nicaragua a decade prior.

2. Who offers a solution letting Ferdinand de Lesseps extract himself honorably and gain income from tolls coming in?
(a) Pierre Tirard.
(b) H. B. Slaven.
(c) Philippe Banau-Varilla.
(d) Charles de Lesseps.

3. A Compagnie Nouvelle du Canal de Panama is incorporated on October 20, 1894 and the liquidator extends the Wyse Concession through what year?
(a) 1900.
(b) 1901.
(c) 1902.
(d) 1903.

4. After leaving the bottom lands of Panama in late 1879, while en route to Panama City, the Ferdinand de Lesseps entourage follow what river toward the summit at Culebra?
(a) Panama River.
(b) Rio Obispo.
(c) Rio Grande.
(d) Chagres River.

5. 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) Gaston Blanchet.
(b) A. G. Menocal.
(c) Armand Rycus.
(d) Baron de Lypinay.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The Chamber of Deputies is lobbied by stockholders to grant a Suez-style lottery bond issue proposed by Ferdinand de Lesseps, and he announces what?

3. Gustave Eiffel eventually is able to clear his name, but what does he do afterward?

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

5. A huge dam taming the Chagres changes the slope, increasing the "cube" excavation by how much?

(see the answer key)

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