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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. To eliminate rumors he is terminally ill, Ferdinand de Lesseps goes where?
(a) To stand beside Ulysses S. Grant at the Eiffel Tower unveiling.
(b) To stand beside Grover Cleveland at the Statue of Liberty unveiling.
(c) To stand beside Ulysses S. Grant at the Statue of Liberty unveiling.
(d) To stand beside Grover Cleveland at the Eiffel Tower unveiling.

2. The Wallace/Stevens departmental system is replaced by what?
(a) Multiple-level class system as in Mexico.
(b) Geological divisions with one atop another.
(c) Celestial, with each independent of another.
(d) Geographic divisions as in the French period.

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

4. Transfer of the Canal Zone on May 4, 1904, is not ceremonial as Lieutenant Mark Brooke receives keys to the storehouses and hospital, signs a receipt, and the U.S. flag is raised where?
(a) Over a storeroom.
(b) Over a hospital.
(c) Over a hotel.
(d) At canal construction site near Panama City.

5. When William Howard Taft succeeds Theodore Roosevelt in 1909, the canal project is how far completed?
(a) 75%.
(b) 35%.
(c) 85%.
(d) 50%.

Short Answer Questions

1. Company physicians agree on what as the best advice regarding the maladies associated with Panama?

2. On his 1879 trip to New York, Lieutenant Lucien Napoleon Bonaparte Wyse travels to Washington and sees whom?

3. Back in Paris, in mid-1885, Ferdinand de Lesseps stipulates his Panama project ranks how in comparison to Suez?

4. Based on various exploratory expeditions through 1875, at least how many points in Central America are determined to be sufficiently narrow to connect the Atlantic and Pacific oceans?

5. "The Man with the Sun in His Eyes," the subtitle for Chapter 18, refers to Theodore Roosevelt's 1906 visit to the isthmus, where he takes everything in how?

(see the answer key)

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