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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. Which President of the United States is assassinated in 1901?
(a) William Howard Taft.
(b) Franklin D. Roosevelt.
(c) William McKinley.
(d) Grover Cleveland.

2. John Stevens feels the Panama Canal can be completed by January 1914, but doubts a sea- level version can be prior to what year?
(a) 1924.
(b) 1916.
(c) 1919.
(d) 1921.

3. Ferdinand de Lesseps lost a son and a wife to cholera in Egypt and invests $7.1 million in hospitals that a Canadian doctor declares the best in the tropics, and an American, decades later, places where?
(a) Comparable to all U.S. care givers.
(b) Ahead of all U.S. care givers.
(c) Comparable in many respects to all U.S. care givers.
(d) Behind all U.S. care givers.

4. 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) Dark and suffocating.
(b) Full of disease and wild animals.
(c) Horrifically dangerous.
(d) Astonishingly beautiful.

5. 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?
(a) Swimming.
(b) By ferry.
(c) By canoe.
(d) Using planks.

Short Answer Questions

1. "Adventure by Trigonometry" is the subtitle of Chapter 12, detailing how the U.S. moves from what to what?

2. Jaques de Reinach is a nominal villain in comparison to whom?

3. George W. Goethals allows employees to air grievances where?

4. William Crawford Gorgas gathers data on how weather and topography affect Anopheles mosquitoes that transmit malarial parasite to humans, and discovers what?

5. Who ensures the 1879 Congris International d'Ytudes du Canal Interocyanique opens in May, the best time to be in Paris, has final say as to the agenda, rules, committee make-up, and entertainment?

(see the answer key)

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