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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. 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 railway platform to await a train to the cemetary when they die.
(b) Outside the hospital on the ground.
(c) On the floor in the basement.
(d) In coffins to await their end.

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?
(a) In the 1840s while posted in Prussia.
(b) In the 1830s while posted in Egypt.
(c) In the late 1830s while posted in Venice.
(d) In the late 1820s while posted in Holland.

3. U.S. delegate Commander Selfridge raises what issue regarding Nicaragua while at the 1879 Congris International d'Ytudes du Canal Interocyanique in Paris?
(a) Its history of volcanic disturbances and earthquakes.
(b) Its history of typhoons and hurricanes.
(c) Its history of floods and earthquakes.
(d) Its history of volcanic disturbances and typhoons.

4. In just over a decade in Panama, the French spend $287 million and expend how many lives?
(a) Some 22,000.
(b) Some 12,000.
(c) Some 32,000 lives.
(d) Some 42,000 lives.

5. 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?
(a) 1 mile.
(b) 3/4 mile.
(c) 4/5 mile.
(d) 1/2 mile.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Ferdinand de Lesseps has declares publicly that 20 ships daily shall pass via the canal by 1890, and what occurs to the Compagnie Universelle on February 4, 1889?

3. The Compagnie Universelle incorporates on March 3, 1881, with whom as officers?

4. 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?

5. The liquidator's ordering a halt to work on the Isthmus instigates what among workers and shareholders?

(see the answer key)

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