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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 3, Chapter 21.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is the main issue impeding fumigation in U.S. facilities?
(a) Lack of newsprint to seal buildings.
(b) Lack of devices to dispense fumes.
(c) Climate is too humid.
(d) Lack of chemical fumigants.

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

4. What promise does Ferdinand de Lesseps keep on January 1, 1880?
(a) Cuts the ribbon at the location for the Panama Canal.
(b) Strikes the first blow for the Panama.
(c) Leads the New Year's parade through the capital.
(d) Tosses a lucky franc into the bay near Panama City.

5. Completed after ten years of construction in 1869, what is the significant engineering feat that shortens the trek from Europe to India by some 5,800 miles around the Horn of Africa?
(a) The Suez Highway.
(b) The Orient Express.
(c) The European-East Asian Transcontinental Highway.
(d) The Suez Canal.

Short Answer Questions

1. The United States is granted exclusive right of transit across the Isthmus of Panama upon the signing of what document with Colombia in 1846?

2. Which investigative group of the Panama Affair holds 63 sessions, receives 158 depositions, complies over 1,000 dossiers, but issues a report that embarrasses no colleagues?

3. Theodore Roosevelt declares he would have recommended the Congress take possession of the isthmus had the Panamanians not revolted, as which nation is not a responsible power?

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

5. What is the key to the lock enterprise?

(see the answer key)

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