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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. Who rebuilds Colon after it goes up in flames, killing 18 and leaving some 8,000 homeless?
(a) French engineer officials.
(b) "Seabees" (construction battalions of the Civil Engineer Corps of the U.S. Navy).
(c) Railroad officials.
(d) U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

2. Lieutenants Lucien Napoleon-Bonaparte Wyse and Armand Reclus plan a sea-level canal for Central America between Wyse's 1878 and 1879 visits to Washington, while Ferdinand de Lesseps does what?
(a) Returns to the Suez Canal after ten years to examine it for stability and engineering techniques.
(b) Organizes the 1879 Congris International d'Ytudes du Canal Interocyanique.
(c) Sails for the Isthmus of Panama.
(d) Accompanies Wyse to Washington and New York in early 1879.

3. Based on various exploratory expeditions through 1875, at least how many points in Central America are determined to be sufficiently narrow to connect the Atlantic and Pacific oceans?
(a) 7.
(b) 3.
(c) 12.
(d) 19.

4. Who is hired as America's first chief engineer for the canal project, with the understanding he need not move to the isthmus?
(a) John Findley Wallace.
(b) Theodore Perry Shonts.
(c) George W. Goethals.
(d) John Stevens.

5. No sitting President has left the country before, so what is the reaction when Theodore Roosevelt announces he will visit Panama?
(a) Uncertainty in the U.S.
(b) Limited support or approval.
(c) No concern for or against in Panama.
(d) Great excitement.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. Lieutenant Lucien Napoleon Bonaparte Wyse negotiates a contract with Colombian President Aquileo Parra on March 23, 1878, including what conditions?

3. Going past Panama swamp in late 1879, Ferdinand de Lesseps and others reach a huge, iron bridge washed out by the worst recorded flood at Barbacoas, so they cross the river how to board another train?

4. When William Howard Taft succeeds Theodore Roosevelt in 1909, the canal project is how far completed?

5. Marie Gorgas provides the best impressions of the American era in Panama, noting Colon is "unspeakably dirty" and depressing and the jungle is what?

(see the answer key)

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