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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. According to newspapers, why does Le-Shu-Chang receive the longest applause when the opportunity to rise for recognition at the 1879 Congris International d'Ytudes du Canal Interocyanique comes?
(a) China was recognized for constructng the 999-room palace in Lhasa, Tibet.
(b) The Chinese delegation had come the farthest distance.
(c) Because China was expected to provide the labor to dig the canal.
(d) China was recognized for constructing the large dams and the Great Wall by engineers.

2. At the peak of U.S. work, on any given day, how many steam shovels were operating in the Cut?
(a) 80-90.
(b) 15-25.
(c) 50-60.
(d) 30-40.

3. On May 2, 1902, the second key swaying event following the Morgan Committee reports is Mount Pelye exploding on Martinique; how far away and how many killed?
(a) 1,500 miles from Nicaragua, 3,000 killed.
(b) 3,000 miles from Nicaragua, 15,000 killed.
(c) 150 miles from Nicaragua, 3,000 killed.
(d) 1,500 miles from Nicaragua, 30,000 killed.

4. Lieutenant Lucien Napoleon Bonaparte Wyse sails back to New York in early 1879 to buy the Panama Railroad Company, but its president is the major stockholder with the leverage to demand what price?
(a) $300 per share, three times the market value.
(b) $100 per share, full market value.
(c) $400 per share, four times the market value.
(d) $200 per share, two times the market value.

5. In a 1911 University of California Berkeley speech, former President Theodore Roosevelt gets laughs and applause when he maintains what?
(a) The canal would not have started if he followed normal legislative channels.
(b) It was not initiating the canal that was the problem, it was seeing it through.
(c) The canal started because he followed normal legislative channels.
(d) He did not go back to Panama because they would not let him drive another steam shovel.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. Beyond maps and plans, what is Lieutenant Lucien Napoleon Bonaparte Wyse refused access to in 1878?

3. A huge dam taming the Chagres changes the slope, increasing the "cube" excavation by how much?

4. On March 10, 1902, the Morgan Committee reports out the Hepburn Bill favorably, recommending what?

5. Which delegate to the 1879 Congris International d'Ytudes du Canal Interocyanique in Paris takes into consideration the deadly climate of Panama?

(see the answer key)

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