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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. William Crawford Gorgas gathers data on how weather and topography affect Anopheles mosquitoes that transmit malarial parasite to humans, and discovers what?
(a) Direct sunlight, rain, and strong air currents have no effect on them.
(b) Direct sunlight, rain, and strong air currents are lethal to them.
(c) Direct sunlight and strong air currents are lethal to them, rain is not.
(d) Direct sunlight and rain are lethal to them, strong air currents are not.

2. When Phillippe Banau-Varilla resigns as Panamanian envoy, resumes publishing Le Matin, and asks the salary due him be reserved to build a monument to whom?
(a) Thomas Roosevelt.
(b) John Stevens.
(c) Ferdinand de Lesseps.
(d) Himself.

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?
(a) 4/5 mile.
(b) 1 mile.
(c) 3/4 mile.
(d) 1/2 mile.

4. Where does Manuel Amador send a coded telegram to on October 28, 1903?
(a) San Francisco.
(b) Panama City.
(c) New York.
(d) Washington, D.C.

5. An illustrated, anti-Semitic daily, La Libre Parole receives attention in September 1892 as it starts featuring exposes of the "Jewish plot in Panama" and the Minister of Justice orders what?
(a) Arrest and jailing of former company officers.
(b) Arrest and jailing of Ydouard Drumont.
(c) Audit and interrogation of the former company.
(d) Initially arresting and jailing Ferdinand and Charles de Lesseps.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which survivors enjoy lifelong immunity from the disease that comes and goes in waves?

3. John Stevens is scheduled to accompany William H. Taft to the Philippines to advise on railroad construction, when who urges John Stevens to go to Panama as John Findley Wallace's successor?

4. What 100+ edition, 1,000+ page book holding Jews responsible for all woes appears in 1886, and when the Compagnie Universelle fails, whose "history" of the firm is a best seller in 1890?

5. What does Theodore Roosevelt state in his first message to Congress is the reason the U.S. must construct a canal in Central America for?

(see the answer key)

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