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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 3, Chapter 18.

Multiple Choice 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?
(a) Across the North American continent, over the Isthmus of Panama, and east through the Suez Canal.
(b) Across the North American continent, east around the Horn of Africa, and through the Great Lakes and various western rivers of the North American continent.
(c) Across the North American continent, east around the Horn of Africa, and over the Isthmus of Panama.
(d) East around the Horn of Africa, around South America, and over the Isthmus of Panama.

2. William Crawford Gorgas gathers data on how weather and topography affect Anopheles mosquitoes that transmit malarial parasite to humans, and discovers what?
(a) Direct sunlight and strong air currents are lethal to them, rain is not.
(b) Direct sunlight, rain, and strong air currents are lethal to them.
(c) Direct sunlight, rain, and strong air currents have no effect on them.
(d) Direct sunlight and rain are lethal to them, strong air currents are not.

3. 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?
(a) Unlike anything previously designed.
(b) Modifications for Suez a decade prior.
(c) Modifications to dams used in Holland.
(d) Modifications for Nicaragua a decade prior.

4. A huge dam taming the Chagres changes the slope, increasing the "cube" excavation by how much?
(a) 60%.
(b) 30%.
(c) 100%.
(d) 75%.

5. Jaques de Reinach is a nominal villain in comparison to whom?
(a) Cornelius Herz.
(b) Ydouard Drumont.
(c) Ferdinand Martin.
(d) Alexandre Ribot.

Short Answer Questions

1. Upon their arrival in Panama in late 1879, Ferdinand de Lesseps and his group take the train into the jungle and enter the valley of what wide, brown, looping waterway?

2. What takes place subsequent to the arrival of Theodore Perry Shonts and John Stevens in Panama?

3. A worker dies of bubonic plague on July 3, 1905, and William Crawford Gorgas immediately orders a campaign to eradicate what?

4. What 1879 Congris International d'Ytudes du Canal Interocyanique delegation drew attention by the maps and plans they brought that had never been seen in Europe before?

5. Which monument unveiling did Ferdinand de Lesseps attend in October of 1886?

(see the answer key)

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