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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. Lieutenant Colonel William Crawford Gorgas, despite opposition from bureaucrats, maintains the biggest challenge is what?
(a) Getting rid of what is dug from the canal.
(b) The massive amount of paperwork required by Washington.
(c) Accepting a lock vice a sea-level plan.
(d) Conquering yellow fever and malaria.

2. On March 10, 1902, the Morgan Committee reports out the Hepburn Bill favorably, recommending what?
(a) 7-4 a Nicaragua canal.
(b) 9-2 a Panama canal.
(c) 6-5 a Panama canal.
(d) 10-1 a Nicaragua canal.

3. Which steamship company, established just prior to news of the discovery of gold in California reaches the East, receives a federal subsidy to carry the mail?
(a) The Intercontinental Steamship Company.
(b) The Atlantic-Pacific Steamship Company.
(c) The Union Pacific Steamship Corporation.
(d) The Pacific Mail Steamship Company.

4. In a 1911 University of California Berkeley speech, former President Theodore Roosevelt gets laughs and applause when he maintains what?
(a) He did not go back to Panama because they would not let him drive another steam shovel.
(b) The canal would not have started if he followed normal legislative channels.
(c) The canal started because he followed normal legislative channels.
(d) It was not initiating the canal that was the problem, it was seeing it through.

5. Armand Rousseau's report declares abandoning the Panama project will harm French prestige and advocates what?
(a) Adopt the lottery proposal, but abandon the sea-level plan.
(b) Abandon both the sea-level plan for a lock proposal, and that a lottery is insufficient.
(c) Keep the sea-level plan and adopt the lottery proposal.
(d) Continue with the sea-level plan.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. Who is hired as America's first chief engineer for the canal project, with the understanding he need not move to the isthmus?

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

4. Ferdinand de Lesseps' second attempt at going public, is the largest financial endeavor yet, with each share ($100) representing a year's income for half of France's working class, but may be bought how?

5. Ferdinand de Lesseps lost a son and a wife to cholera in Egypt and invests $7.1 million in hospitals that a Canadian doctor declares the best in the tropics, and an American, decades later, places where?

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