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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. What do closed subcommittees at the 1879 Congris International d'Ytudes du Canal Interocyanique in Paris establish that the Nicaragua canal route is?
(a) Practical, costing $140 million, and taking 12 years.
(b) Impractical, unable to estimate cost, and an earthquake area.
(c) Practical, costing $140 million, and taking six years.
(d) Impractical, costing $209 million, including locks, and taking 12 years.

2. Upon their arrival in Panama in late 1879, Ferdinand de Lesseps and his group take the train into the jungle and enter the valley of what wide, brown, looping waterway?
(a) Rio Obispo.
(b) Rio Grande.
(c) Panama River.
(d) Chagres River.

3. The great dam at Gatun, that is 15 times wider at the base than it is high, is how difficult to construct?
(a) Almost impossible.
(b) Unbelievably difficult.
(c) Surprisingly easy.
(d) Moderately hard.

4. Sea supremacy has always been key to national and commercial greatness, and Theodore Roosevelt publishes The Naval War of 1812 while?
(a) President.
(b) An undergraduate student.
(c) A high school student.
(d) A graduate student.

5. The average death rate in the final year among whites is 2.06 per thousand, and what per thousand among blacks?
(a) 3.51.
(b) 4.85.
(c) 6.11.
(d) 8.23.

Short Answer Questions

1. In just over a decade in Panama, the French spend $287 million and expend how many lives?

2. 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?

3. Thousands of articles create popular view of Canal Zone life, but make no mention of blacks, so government inspectors and fact-finders are amazed to see the entire project depends on what?

4. How have George W. Goethals' successors followed his aesthetic and military decision by allowing the jungle to get how close to the shore?

5. Who offers a solution letting Ferdinand de Lesseps extract himself honorably and gain income from tolls coming in?

(see the answer key)

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