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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. What is U.S. delegate Admiral Ammen's view of the American canal plan, given at the 1879 Congris International d'Ytudes du Canal Interocyanique, with a 1,900 foot viaduct over the Chagres River, 12 locks at each end, and costing $94.6 million?
(a) Believes the cost estimate could be lowered somewhat.
(b) States it requires only minor modifications.
(c) Supports the proposal wholeheartedly.
(d) Declares the whole thing impractical.

2. Armand Rousseau's report declares abandoning the Panama project will harm French prestige and advocates what?
(a) Adopt the lottery proposal, but abandon the sea-level plan.
(b) Abandon both the sea-level plan for a lock proposal, and that a lottery is insufficient.
(c) Continue with the sea-level plan.
(d) Keep the sea-level plan and adopt the lottery proposal.

3. Company physicians agree on what as the best advice regarding the maladies associated with Panama?
(a) Eat no fruit.
(b) Leave the Isthmus quickly.
(c) Avoid getting wet to protect against night air.
(d) Stay out of the hot sun.

4. An initial stock offering after the1879 Congris International d'Ytudes du Canal Interocyanique goes poorly, so Ferdinand de Lesseps gives back investors' funds, has another issue offered, and declares what?
(a) A double return within three years is guaranteed.
(b) He will complete the survey required by the Wyse Concession.
(c) The survey requirement of the Wyse Concession is void.
(d) He will depart for Panama with a team of experts by October 1879.

5. Sen. Spooner offers a Hepburn Bill amendment authorizing the President to acquire the Panama property and concessions for no more than $40 million, only if Colombia relinquishes what?
(a) A perpetual six-mile sovereignty zone.
(b) A perpetual nine-mile sovereignty zone.
(c) A perpetual three-mile sovereignty zone,
(d) A perpetual twelve-mile sovereignty zone.

Short Answer Questions

1. Lieutenant Lucien Napoleon Bonaparte Wyse negotiates a contract with Colombian President Aquileo Parra on March 23, 1878, including what conditions?

2. To eliminate rumors he is terminally ill, Ferdinand de Lesseps goes where?

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

4. The 1879 Congris International d'Ytudes du Canal Interocyanique Technical Committe hears proposals for how many passage sites before focusing on the Americans' Nicaraguan and the Wyse plans?

5. Beyond maps and plans, what is Lieutenant Lucien Napoleon Bonaparte Wyse refused access to in 1878?

(see the answer key)

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