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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Theodore Roosevelt is in what position when he initially thrusts himself into shaping policy for an American canal?
(a) Governor of North Dakota.
(b) Former president.
(c) President.
(d) Governor of New York.

2. Which delegate to the 1879 Congris International d'Ytudes du Canal Interocyanique in Paris takes into consideration the deadly climate of Panama?
(a) Jules Quesnay de Beaurepaire.
(b) Vice Admiral Clement Baron de La Ronciere-Le Noury.
(c) Francisco Lopez de Gomara.
(d) Baron Nicholas-Joseph-Adolphe Godin de Lepinay.

3. On March 10, 1902, the Morgan Committee reports out the Hepburn Bill favorably, recommending what?
(a) 7-4 a Nicaragua canal.
(b) 6-5 a Panama canal.
(c) 10-1 a Nicaragua canal.
(d) 9-2 a Panama canal.

4. Completed after ten years of construction in 1869, what is the significant engineering feat that shortens the trek from Europe to India by some 5,800 miles around the Horn of Africa?
(a) The Suez Highway.
(b) The Orient Express.
(c) The Suez Canal.
(d) The European-East Asian Transcontinental Highway.

5. Yeas were primarily French, yet A.G. Menocal's analysis of the 1879 Congris International d'Ytudes du Canal Interocyanique canal site vote showed how many were French Society of Engineers members?
(a) None.
(b) 3.
(c) 2.
(d) 1.

6. What firm tows its first massive, steam-powered dredges to Colon in April of 1883?
(a) Herne, Slaven & Co. (later American Contracting and Dredging Co.).
(b) Slaven & Herne Dredging & Contracting, Inc.
(c) Compagnie Universal de Panama.
(d) Compagnie Nouvelle de Canal de Panama.

7. Some mortality estimates go up to 75% among French immigrants and beds are reported to be at such a premium that the dying have been placed where?
(a) Outside the hospital on the ground.
(b) On the railway platform to await a train to the cemetary when they die.
(c) On the floor in the basement.
(d) In coffins to await their end.

8. The results of Commander Selfridge's initial orders for exploration in Central America in 1870, together with those of an additional six expeditions, were to be submitted for appraisal to which agency?
(a) The Federal Trade Commission (FTC).
(b) The Federal Trade Commission (FTC).
(c) The Interoceanic Canal Commission (ICC).
(d) The Bureau of Science and Engineering (BSE).

9. When, on March 29, 1885, Haitian-born, xenophobic Pedro Prestan and a handful of barefoot followers take six U.S. hostages and demand guns, an American consul orders compliance; what happens next?
(a) Cmdr. George Burt moves the gunboat Shenandoah and takes control.
(b) Cmdr. Joseph L. Dow moves the gunboat Wachusett and takes control.
(c) Cmdr. Theodore F. Kane moves the gunboat Galena and takes control.
(d) Cmdr. William Connor moves the gunboat Tennessee and takes control.

10. Lieutenant Lucien Napoleon Bonaparte Wyse negotiates a contract with Colombian President Aquileo Parra on March 23, 1878, including what conditions?
(a) Colombia receives 3% of gross revenue for 15 years and 2% increases at 25, 50, and 75 years.
(b) Colombia is guaranteed varying percentages of the gross revenue for initial 150 years.
(c) 750,000 francs down, surveys in three years, canal company in five years, and building within 12 years after that.
(d) One million francs down, surveys in two years, canal company in 3 years, and construction complete 15 years after that.

11. As Panama shares slip in value by mid-1885, Ferdinand de Lesseps lies to the stockholders stating the task is how far accomplished?
(a) 33%.
(b) 40%.
(c) 50%.
(d) Over 50%.

12. John Walker asks Compagnie Nouvelle to verify it's franchises and title in Pa nama in April 1901, gets no reply by June, and has William Cromwell ask directly how much his client wants. They reply how?
(a) They state they are gathering the file, meanwhile have him make an offer.
(b) They cannot reply until after the annual July meeting.
(c) Offended by Cromwell's blunt cable, they fire him.
(d) They say they did not get Walker's query and will get back to him.

13. "The Hero" is a reference to the esteem surrounding Ferdinand de Lesseps at what point in history?
(a) During the ten-month 1870-1871 Franco-German War.
(b) Upon the 1869 opening of his lockless Suez Canal.
(c) His foundation of the Sociyty Civile Internationale du Canal Interocyanique de Darien.
(d) In 1875 when he announces his interest in an interoceanic canal.

14. 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) Initially arresting and jailing Ferdinand and Charles de Lesseps.
(b) Arrest and jailing of Ydouard Drumont.
(c) Arrest and jailing of former company officers.
(d) Audit and interrogation of the former company.

15. French engineers at Panama look on American colleagues as merely adroit at improvisation, but find making do with what is available under pressure difficult and that Suez was too easy, as warned by whom?
(a) A. G. Menocal.
(b) Gaston Blanchet.
(c) Baron de Lypinay.
(d) Armand Rycus.

Short Answer Questions

1. Since William Nelson Cromwell has White House access, which John Tyler Morgan reportedly hates him for, what does Cromwell view that as proof of?

2. Sea supremacy has always been key to national and commercial greatness, and Theodore Roosevelt publishes The Naval War of 1812 while?

3. Who is the Turr Syndicate directed by?

4. When is the sanitation problem remedied at Colon when the town burns to the ground?

5. Phillippe Banau-Varilla's Cincinnati civic speech of building a shorter, cheaper alternate to Nicaragua, glosses over mudslides, disease, his stock holdings, and adds what new theme to the debate?

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