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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. 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) States it requires only minor modifications.
(b) Supports the proposal wholeheartedly.
(c) Declares the whole thing impractical.
(d) Believes the cost estimate could be lowered somewhat.

2. After forming his private investment syndicate, Ferdinand de Lesseps next obtains the Wyse Concession when he purchases the Turr Syndicate for $2 million to be paid how?
(a) 1/4 in cash, and 3/4 in new company stock.
(b) All in cash.
(c) All in new company stock.
(d) 1/2 in cash and 1/2 in new company stock.

3. Although Lieutenant Lucien Napoleon-Bonaparte Wyse completes his trip to Bogota, Colombia, in mid-May of 1878, and subsequently conducts a preliminary trip to Nicaragua, where does the lieutenant travel next?
(a) Washington, D.C.
(b) San Francisco.
(c) New York.
(d) New Orleans.

4. In late 1879, Ferdinand de Lesseps initiates publication of what propaganda organ?
(a) Gazette du Canal a Travers Panama.
(b) Journal avante de Partie du Monde.
(c) Bulletin du Canal Interocyanique.
(d) Enregistrons du Corridoir Centre Amerique.

5. Dr. William Henry Welch of Johns Hopkins Medical School convinces Theodore Roosevelt to assign a sanitary officer. Why is Welch's former student, William Crawford Gorgas, chosen?
(a) He is the foremost U.S. authority on tropical disease.
(b) He is the most senior U.S. medical officer with experience in the jungle.
(c) His mentor was General Walter Reed, a senior U.S. Army physician.
(d) He survived yellow fever, making him immune to it thereafter.

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. Which President of the United States is assassinated in 1901?

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

4. 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?

5. Whom is Ferdinand de Lesseps hailed as second only to upon his arrival in Panama with his associates in late 1879?

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