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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 2, Chapter 10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In June of 1881, Ferdinand de Lesseps pays Park's price, that has increased $200 per share to $250 cash, consuming how much of the company's resources?
(a) 1/4.
(b) 1/5.
(c) 1/2.
(d) 1/3.

2. In which book does the author urge no action be taken prior to experts first comparing the pros and cons of all potential routes in connecting the Atlantic and Pacific oceans?
(a) Political Essay on the Kingdom of New Span.
(b) Exploring for a Navigable Route; An Approach to Connect the East and West in a Practical Manner.
(c) Joining the West with the East, a Nineteenth Century Essay.
(d) Connecting the Atlantic and the Pacific Oceans.

3. Cholera kills 48 of 50 technicians and 150 soldiers and dependents en route to duty in Panama in 1852, yet which Fourth Infantry member survives and becomes President?
(a) Abraham Lincoln.
(b) Rutherford B. Hayes.
(c) Andrew Johnson.
(d) Ulysses S. Grant.

4. Since William Nelson Cromwell has White House access, which John Tyler Morgan reportedly hates him for, what does Cromwell view that as proof of?
(a) Theodore Roosevelt's interest in Cromwell's views.
(b) Cromwell is a good cook.
(c) Cromwell's effectiveness.
(d) Theodore Roosevelt's friendship with Cromwell.

5. What 100+ edition, 1,000+ page book holding Jews responsible for all woes appears in 1886, and when the Compagnie Universelle fails, whose "history" of the firm is a best seller in 1890?
(a) Ferdinand de Lesseps' La France Juive and La Derniire Bataille.
(b) Ydouard Drumont's La France Juive and La Derniire Bataille.
(c) Madame de Bonnemains' La France Juive and La Derniire Bataille.
(d) General Boulanger's La France Juive and La Derniire Bataille.

Short Answer Questions

1. A. G. Menocal tells the 1879 Congris International d'Ytudes du Canal Interocyanique he had been in Panama in 1875 planning a sea-level canal, but abandoned that idea when he grasped what?

2. 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?

3. Jaques de Reinach is a nominal villain in comparison to whom?

4. Which survivors enjoy lifelong immunity from the disease that comes and goes in waves?

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

(see the answer key)

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