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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. Manuel Amador looking to improve sanitation and end centuries of plague, invests what amount of U.S. $10 million payment into urgent public works projects?
(a) $3 million.
(b) $4 million.
(c) $1 million.
(d) $2 million.

2. Ferdinand de Lesseps' name comes up repeatedly before the Morgan Committee through March 1902, reportedly like a what?
(a) Bond drive in support of the Panamal canal.
(b) Specter warning against Americans getting mired in ruin.
(c) Call to join the nation's project at Panama in support of the U.S. Navy.
(d) Advertisement drive promoting the Panama canal.

3. What other term or phrase describes Phillippe Banau-Varilla besides bold, vain, personable, energetic, practical, and brilliant?
(a) Ordained to restore the tarnished Colombian Honor.
(b) Salvager of "The Great Idea of Nicaragua."
(c) Comic schemer.
(d) Crusader for Scientific Truth.

4. The United States is granted exclusive right of transit across the Isthmus of Panama upon the signing of what document with Colombia in 1846?
(a) The Bidlack Treaty.
(b) The Panama Canal Charter.
(c) The Atlantic and Pacific Accord.
(d) The Panamanian Isthmus Pact.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When do Theodore Perry Shonts and John Stevens land without ceremony at Colon?

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

3. On March 10, 1902, the Morgan Committee reports out the Hepburn Bill favorably, recommending what?

4. Chairman Morgan appears happy questioning witnesses in February 1902, and his badgering of Ydouard Lampry, the Compagnie Nouvelle spokesman creates what?

5. 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?

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