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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. French engineers at Panama look on American colleagues as merely adroit at improvisation, but find making do with what is available under pressure difficult and that Suez was too easy, as warned by whom?
(a) Armand Rycus.
(b) A. G. Menocal.
(c) Baron de Lypinay.
(d) Gaston Blanchet.

2. Why is it nearly impossible in the early stages of canal construction to maintain an adequate work force?
(a) Language differences.
(b) High death toll.
(c) High illness rate.
(d) Frequent turnover.

3. Due to continuing slides, the "total cube" of the cut steadily increases, until it appears necessary for the top of the cut to be how far wide to achieve a mathematically stable 1:4 ratio?
(a) 1/2 mile.
(b) 3/4 mile.
(c) 1 mile.
(d) 4/5 mile.

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

5. 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?
(a) 19.
(b) 24.
(c) 6.
(d) 14.

Short Answer Questions

1. "The Hero" is a reference to the esteem surrounding Ferdinand de Lesseps at what point in history?

2. Jaques de Reinach is a nominal villain in comparison to whom?

3. Ferdinand de Lesseps is from a family entrenched in the diplomatic services, which he enters at age 19, and he becomes interested in construction of canals when?

4. After leaving the bottom lands of Panama in late 1879, while en route to Panama City, the Ferdinand de Lesseps entourage follow what river toward the summit at Culebra?

5. What promise does Ferdinand de Lesseps keep on January 1, 1880?

(see the answer key)

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