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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. 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?
(a) They state they are gathering the file, meanwhile have him make an offer.
(b) They say they did not get Walker's query and will get back to him.
(c) Offended by Cromwell's blunt cable, they fire him.
(d) They cannot reply until after the annual July meeting.

2. When newspapers throughout the world announce "The Great Canal Crash," and deputies order the Compagnie Universelle into receivership, demonstrations across France espouse what?
(a) Virtually no demonstrations occur.
(b) Protest against the company is staged across France.
(c) Popular support of the company is staged across France.
(d) Mixed demonstrations pro and con are held across France.

3. Panama Patchwork is a publication by James Stanley Gilbert containing what?
(a) A magazine arising in competition with George W. Goethals' Canal Record.
(b) A daily newspaper designed for a black audience.
(c) A Sunday newspaper with letters, poetry, stories, other contributions.
(d) Poems about disease, alcoholism, death, futility.

4. When Phillippe Banau-Varilla resigns as Panamanian envoy, resumes publishing Le Matin, and asks the salary due him be reserved to build a monument to whom?
(a) Ferdinand de Lesseps.
(b) John Stevens.
(c) Himself.
(d) Thomas Roosevelt.

5. Lieutenant Lucien Napoleon Bonaparte Wyse negotiates a contract with Colombian President Aquileo Parra on March 23, 1878, including what conditions?
(a) Colombia receives 3% of gross revenue for 15 years and 2% increases at 25, 50, and 75 years.
(b) One million francs down, surveys in two years, canal company in 3 years, and construction complete 15 years after that.
(c) 750,000 francs down, surveys in three years, canal company in five years, and building within 12 years after that.
(d) Colombia is guaranteed varying percentages of the gross revenue for initial 150 years.

Short Answer Questions

1. The cream of the crop of 19th-century French engineers are trained at what two institutions (the most brilliant at the former, and only its top graduates at the latter)?

2. Ferdinand de Lesseps' name comes up repeatedly before the Morgan Committee through March 1902, reportedly like a what?

3. No sitting President has left the country before, so what is the reaction when Theodore Roosevelt announces he will visit Panama?

4. According to newspapers, why does Le-Shu-Chang receive the longest applause when the opportunity to rise for recognition at the 1879 Congris International d'Ytudes du Canal Interocyanique comes?

5. Theodore Roosevelt is in what position when he initially thrusts himself into shaping policy for an American canal?

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