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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. Ferdinand de Lesseps' name comes up repeatedly before the Morgan Committee through March 1902, reportedly like a what?
(a) Bond drive in support of the Panamal canal.
(b) Call to join the nation's project at Panama in support of the U.S. Navy.
(c) Specter warning against Americans getting mired in ruin.
(d) Advertisement drive promoting the Panama canal.

2. On his 1879 trip to New York, Lieutenant Lucien Napoleon Bonaparte Wyse travels to Washington and sees whom?
(a) Chief of the Bureau of Navigation, Admiral Daniel Ammen; Secretary of State William Evarts; and President Rutherford B. Hayes.
(b) Director of Naval Archives, Christian Francis Stephenson; Secretary of State William Evarts; and Ulysses S. Grant.
(c) Chief of the Bureau of Navigation, Admiral Daniel Ammen; Secretary of State William Evarts; and President James A. Garfield.
(d) Chief of Navigational Planning, Vice Admiral T. J. Miller; Secretary of State William Evarts; and President Rutherford B. Hayes.

3. The Canal Record, reliable in most respects, includes nothing about what?
(a) Black weddings, social affairs, births, and obituaries.
(b) Deaths or illnesses of any kind within the Canal Zone.
(c) Politics, government, or budgeting of the canal project.
(d) Divorce, alcoholism, abuse or addiction to drugs, or other negative topics.

4. When Josy Vincente Concha resigns in nervous exhaustion, he is replaced by career diplomat Tomas Herran, fluent in English and popular in Washington, and Herran proves to be what?
(a) More cautious than the State Department hoped.
(b) Less cautious than the State Department anticipated.
(c) Equally cautious as Concha.
(d) Far less cautious than the State Department expected.

5. Armand Rousseau's report declares abandoning the Panama project will harm French prestige and advocates what?
(a) Continue with the sea-level plan.
(b) Adopt the lottery proposal, but abandon the sea-level plan.
(c) Abandon both the sea-level plan for a lock proposal, and that a lottery is insufficient.
(d) Keep the sea-level plan and adopt the lottery proposal.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the fall of 1902 as discussions of Canal Zone sovereignty reach a critical point, civil war erupts on the Isthmus and Theodore Roosevelt takes what action?

2. What does Theodore Roosevelt stress in his autobiography as to his action in Panama?.

3. The Morgan Committee rejects the Walker Commission recommendations, the Senate debates the issues for two weeks, and Mt. Pelye's explosion and a Nicaraguan stamp turn odds how?

4. Why, on November 1, 1903, do Manuel Amador and a colleague let Colonel James Shaler know Colombian troops are approaching?

5. Lieutenant Colonel William Crawford Gorgas, despite opposition from bureaucrats, maintains the biggest challenge is what?

(see the answer key)

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