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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 3, Chapter 15.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which monument unveiling did Ferdinand de Lesseps attend in October of 1886?
(a) The Washington Monument.
(b) The London Bridge.
(c) The Eiffel Tower.
(d) The Statue of Liberty.

2. What does Theodore Roosevelt state in his first message to Congress is the reason the U.S. must construct a canal in Central America for?
(a) For commercial purposes.
(b) To rival Suez.
(c) It is key to U.S. naval supremacy.
(d) For humanitarian reasons.

3. Who offers a solution letting Ferdinand de Lesseps extract himself honorably and gain income from tolls coming in?
(a) Philippe Banau-Varilla.
(b) Pierre Tirard.
(c) Charles de Lesseps.
(d) H. B. Slaven.

4. What does the public prosecutor, Jules Quesnay de Beaurepaire, propose in October 1892?
(a) Improbable cause for civil or criminal action.
(b) Both a civil suit and criminal trial.
(c) Civil suit for damages.
(d) Criminal trial.

5. A movement begins in Panama in July 1903, as 25-26 gather to talk revolution, including which leaders?
(a) William Cromwell, Phillippe Banau-Varilla, and Carlos Constantino Arosemena.
(b) Phillippe Banau-Varilla, Jose Agustin Arango, and Henry G. Prescott.
(c) Phillippe Banau-Varilla, Jose Agustin Arango, and Carlos Constantino Arosemena.
(d) Jose Agustin Arango, Carlos Constantino Arosemena, and Herbert G. Prescott.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the three main routes from the East to the West coasts of the U.S. in January of 1848, when gold is discovered in California?

2. Phillippe Banau-Varilla's Cincinnati civic speech of building a shorter, cheaper alternate to Nicaragua, glosses over mudslides, disease, his stock holdings, and adds what new theme to the debate?

3. On his 1879 trip to New York, Lieutenant Lucien Napoleon Bonaparte Wyse travels to Washington and sees whom?

4. Ferdinand de Lesseps has declares publicly that 20 ships daily shall pass via the canal by 1890, and what occurs to the Compagnie Universelle on February 4, 1889?

5. Theodore Roosevelt declares he would have recommended the Congress take possession of the isthmus had the Panamanians not revolted, as which nation is not a responsible power?

(see the answer key)

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