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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 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) To rival Suez.
(b) It is key to U.S. naval supremacy.
(c) For commercial purposes.
(d) For humanitarian reasons.

2. 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?
(a) Comparable in many respects to all U.S. care givers.
(b) Comparable to all U.S. care givers.
(c) Behind all U.S. care givers.
(d) Ahead of all U.S. care givers.

3. Who rebuilds Colon after it goes up in flames, killing 18 and leaving some 8,000 homeless?
(a) French engineer officials.
(b) "Seabees" (construction battalions of the Civil Engineer Corps of the U.S. Navy).
(c) Railroad officials.
(d) U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

4. Lieutenants Lucien Napoleon-Bonaparte Wyse and Armand Reclus plan a sea-level canal for Central America between Wyse's 1878 and 1879 visits to Washington, while Ferdinand de Lesseps does what?
(a) Sails for the Isthmus of Panama.
(b) Organizes the 1879 Congris International d'Ytudes du Canal Interocyanique.
(c) Accompanies Wyse to Washington and New York in early 1879.
(d) Returns to the Suez Canal after ten years to examine it for stability and engineering techniques.

5. In which book does the author urge no action be taken prior to experts first comparing the pros and cons of all potential routes in connecting the Atlantic and Pacific oceans?
(a) Political Essay on the Kingdom of New Span.
(b) Exploring for a Navigable Route; An Approach to Connect the East and West in a Practical Manner.
(c) Connecting the Atlantic and the Pacific Oceans.
(d) Joining the West with the East, a Nineteenth Century Essay.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. John Walker asks Compagnie Nouvelle to verify it's franchises and title in Pa nama in April 1901, gets no reply by June, and has William Cromwell ask directly how much his client wants. They reply how?

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?

4. Armand Rousseau's report declares abandoning the Panama project will harm French prestige and advocates what?

5. As Panama shares slip in value by mid-1885, Ferdinand de Lesseps lies to the stockholders stating the task is how far accomplished?

(see the answer key)

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