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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. Chapter 8 summarizes what evolves in the courtrooms and subsequent to massive corporate collapse that affects how many French investors?
(a) 750,000.
(b) 500,000.
(c) 800,000.
(d) Over 1 million.

2. When Jules Dingler quits upon approaching mental and physical collapse and Maurice Hutin steps in for a month before resigning also, who becomes acting head of the entire effort?
(a) Phillipe Bunau-Varilla.
(b) Jaques Jonett.
(c) William Kimball.
(d) Alexander de Duponte.

3. John Walker does not accept the mosquito theory and insists the solution is what?
(a) Getting rid of garbage and staying indoors from damp air at night.
(b) Getting rid of garbage, painting houses, and paving streets.
(c) Swimming in salt water when possible and not eating local foods.
(d) Staying indoors from damp air at night and bathing regularly.

4. Before leaving Panama for New York en route to Paris, Ferdinand de Lesseps dismisses all talk regarding the deadly jungle climate and maintains what about the task?
(a) It will be no harder than Suez.
(b) It will be easier than Suez.
(c) It will be easier than Suez, but take longer.
(d) It will be more difficult than Suez.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

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

3. Based on various exploratory expeditions through 1875, at least how many points in Central America are determined to be sufficiently narrow to connect the Atlantic and Pacific oceans?

4. Why is it nearly impossible in the early stages of canal construction to maintain an adequate work force?

5. Who outmaneuvers the Panamanians into giving the U.S. greater rights in the Canal Zone than it wants?

(see the answer key)

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