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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. Ferdinand de Lesseps briefly speaks at the Technical Commission's initial business session on January 6, 1880, then leaves it to rubber stamp what he wants in a 300-page report calling for what?
(a) Sea-level canal, Chagres River dam, and Gulf of Mexico tidal lock and breakwater.
(b) Sea-level canal, Chagres River dam, and Pacific tidal lock and breakwater.
(c) Sea-level canal, Rio Grande dam, and Pacific tidal lock and breakwater.
(d) Sea-level canal, Rio Obispo dam, and Pacific tidal lock and breakwater.

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) Joining the West with the East, a Nineteenth Century Essay.
(c) Exploring for a Navigable Route; An Approach to Connect the East and West in a Practical Manner.
(d) Connecting the Atlantic and the Pacific Oceans.

3. "The Hero" is a reference to the esteem surrounding Ferdinand de Lesseps at what point in history?
(a) Upon the 1869 opening of his lockless Suez Canal.
(b) In 1875 when he announces his interest in an interoceanic canal.
(c) His foundation of the Sociyty Civile Internationale du Canal Interocyanique de Darien.
(d) During the ten-month 1870-1871 Franco-German War.

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

5. Beyond maps and plans, what is Lieutenant Lucien Napoleon Bonaparte Wyse refused access to in 1878?
(a) An interview with Commandant Harold O. McDonald.
(b) A meeting with Admiral Daniel Ammen.
(c) A forum with Vice Admiral T. J. Miller.
(d) A conference with Dr. Christian Francis Stephenson.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Sea supremacy has always been key to national and commercial greatness, and Theodore Roosevelt publishes The Naval War of 1812 while?

4. What 1879 Congris International d'Ytudes du Canal Interocyanique delegation drew attention by the maps and plans they brought that had never been seen in Europe before?

5. 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?

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