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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. 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) Accepting a lock vice a sea-level plan.
(c) The massive amount of paperwork required by Washington.
(d) Conquering yellow fever and malaria.

2. Theodore Roosevelt's ship arrives in Panama a day early, so as not to ruin John Steven's schedule, the Presidential party agrees to stay on board overnight, but in the morning the welcoming party finds what?
(a) Rosevelt in the jungle on a hunting expedition.
(b) Roosevelt's ship gone from port.
(c) Roosevelt having breakfast at a hotel.
(d) Roosevelt ashore exploring the waterfront.

3. Which organization is later described as representing the world's first "transcontinental" railroad?
(a) The Panama Railroad Company.
(b) The Union Pacific Railroad Company.
(c) The Panama Steam Line Corporation.
(d) The San Francisco-Boston Railway.

4. Since William Nelson Cromwell has White House access, which John Tyler Morgan reportedly hates him for, what does Cromwell view that as proof of?
(a) Theodore Roosevelt's interest in Cromwell's views.
(b) Cromwell's effectiveness.
(c) Cromwell is a good cook.
(d) Theodore Roosevelt's friendship with Cromwell.

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) Connecting the Atlantic and the Pacific Oceans.
(c) Exploring for a Navigable Route; An Approach to Connect the East and West in a Practical Manner.
(d) Joining the West with the East, a Nineteenth Century Essay.

Short Answer Questions

1. In just over a decade in Panama, the French spend $287 million and expend how many lives?

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

3. Due to continuing slides, the "total cube" of the cut steadily increases, until it appears necessary for the top of the cut to be how far wide to achieve a mathematically stable 1:4 ratio?

4. Jaques de Reinach is the "Micros" article's inside source, but Ydouard Drumont denies testifying, unless he is pardoned for what type of conviction keeping him in prison?

5. Phillippe Banau-Varilla goes to the "Lion's Cage," the home of John T. Morgan, and it almost comes to blows when Morgan terms Panama as what?

(see the answer key)

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