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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. Gustave Eiffel eventually is able to clear his name, but what does he do afterward?
(a) Becomes a politician in Greenland.
(b) Gives up his building career.
(c) Takes his building career to the U.S.
(d) Continues his building career.

2. Ferdinand de Lesseps lost a son and a wife to cholera in Egypt and invests $7.1 million in hospitals that a Canadian doctor declares the best in the tropics, and an American, decades later, places where?
(a) Behind all U.S. care givers.
(b) Ahead of all U.S. care givers.
(c) Comparable in many respects to all U.S. care givers.
(d) Comparable to all U.S. care givers.

3. Which survivors enjoy lifelong immunity from the disease that comes and goes in waves?
(a) Chagres fever.
(b) Yellow fever.
(c) Cholera.
(d) Malaria.

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

5. Who is the Turr Syndicate directed by?
(a) General Istvan Turr, Baron Jacques de Reinach, and Lieutenant Lucien Napoleon-Bonaparte Wyse.
(b) Baron Istvan Turr, Commodore Jacques de Reinach, and Captain Lucien Napoleon-Bonaparte Wyse.
(c) Colonel Istvan Turr, Lord Jacques de Reinach, and Admiral Lucien Napoleon-Bonaparte Wyse.
(d) General Istvan Turr, Baron Jacques de Reinach, and Commander Lucien Napoleon-Bonaparte Wyse.

Short Answer Questions

1. Completed after ten years of construction in 1869, what is the significant engineering feat that shortens the trek from Europe to India by some 5,800 miles around the Horn of Africa?

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. When newspapers throughout the world announce "The Great Canal Crash," and deputies order the Compagnie Universelle into receivership, demonstrations across France espouse what?

4. Once digging the "Great Trench" starts at Emperador on January 20, 1882, it moves how quickly?

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

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