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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 is U.S. delegate Admiral Ammen's view of the American canal plan, given at the 1879 Congris International d'Ytudes du Canal Interocyanique, with a 1,900 foot viaduct over the Chagres River, 12 locks at each end, and costing $94.6 million?
(a) Believes the cost estimate could be lowered somewhat.
(b) Supports the proposal wholeheartedly.
(c) Declares the whole thing impractical.
(d) States it requires only minor modifications.

2. While dredging predominates in the lowlands, steam shovels, picks, shovels, and what else are key in the uplands?
(a) Wheelbarrows.
(b) Railway cars.
(c) Horses and wagons.
(d) Dump trucks.

3. Marie Gorgas provides the best impressions of the American era in Panama, noting Colon is "unspeakably dirty" and depressing and the jungle is what?
(a) Full of disease and wild animals.
(b) Horrifically dangerous.
(c) Dark and suffocating.
(d) Astonishingly beautiful.

4. Company physicians agree on what as the best advice regarding the maladies associated with Panama?
(a) Avoid getting wet to protect against night air.
(b) Eat no fruit.
(c) Stay out of the hot sun.
(d) Leave the Isthmus quickly.

5. Who offers a solution letting Ferdinand de Lesseps extract himself honorably and gain income from tolls coming in?
(a) H. B. Slaven.
(b) Pierre Tirard.
(c) Philippe Banau-Varilla.
(d) Charles de Lesseps.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who is the Turr Syndicate directed by?

3. What results from the six-month expedition led by Lieutenant Lucien Napoleon-Bonaparte Wyse that leaves France in early November of 1876?

4. An initial stock offering after the1879 Congris International d'Ytudes du Canal Interocyanique goes poorly, so Ferdinand de Lesseps gives back investors' funds, has another issue offered, and declares what?

5. In late 1879, a large entourage sails to Panama arriving in what season?

(see the answer key)

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