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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. A sea-level canal built at Panama is just impossible, and using 1880s equipment, the lock canal approach maximizes what?
(a) Both technological and financial limits.
(b) Financial, but not technological limits.
(c) Neither technological nor financial limits.
(d) Technological, but not financial limits.

2. Days after Congris International d'Ytudes du Canal Interocyanique of 1879 concludes, Ferdinand de Lesseps is behind 270 rich investors who are to receive what upon a firm being legally established?
(a) Founding shares at a bargain price.
(b) Property in Panama along the canal route. at bargain prices.
(c) Names inscribed on the Panama Canal Monument.
(d) Tax benefits in France for investing in Panama.

3. Chapter 8 summarizes what evolves in the courtrooms and subsequent to massive corporate collapse that affects how many French investors?
(a) 800,000.
(b) 500,000.
(c) 750,000.
(d) Over 1 million.

4. 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) Ahead of all U.S. care givers.
(b) Comparable to all U.S. care givers.
(c) Behind all U.S. care givers.
(d) Comparable in many respects to all U.S. care givers.

5. 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 typhoons and hurricanes.
(b) Its history of volcanic disturbances and earthquakes.
(c) Its history of volcanic disturbances and typhoons.
(d) Its history of floods and earthquakes.

Short Answer 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?

2. Why is it nearly impossible in the early stages of canal construction to maintain an adequate work force?

3. 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?

4. Ferdinand de Lesseps' second attempt at going public, is the largest financial endeavor yet, with each share ($100) representing a year's income for half of France's working class, but may be bought how?

5. Lieutenants Lucien Napoleon-Bonaparte Wyse and Armand Reclus plan a sea-level canal for Central America between Wyse's 1878 and 1879 visits to Washington, while Ferdinand de Lesseps does what?

(see the answer key)

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