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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In late 1879, a large entourage sails to Panama arriving in what season?
(a) Rainy.
(b) Typhoon.
(c) Hurricane.
(d) Dry.

2. Three weeks following the arrival of news of the Colon fire in Paris, Ferdinand de Lesseps achieves the ultimate honor, induction where?
(a) Acadymie Franzaise.
(b) Acadymie Manigance le Franzaise.
(c) Instituons Franzaise.
(d) Instituons Edifiant le Franzaise.

3. What 1879 Congris International d'Ytudes du Canal Interocyanique delegation drew attention by the maps and plans they brought that had never been seen in Europe before?
(a) The Americans.
(b) The Colombians.
(c) The Nicaraguans.
(d) The Hawaiians.

4. Phillippe Banau-Varilla goes to the "Lion's Cage," the home of John T. Morgan, and it almost comes to blows when Morgan terms Panama as what?
(a) The "endless mudslide."
(b) A "rotten project."
(c) "The French Connection."
(d) "Panama paranoia."

5. Since William Nelson Cromwell has White House access, which John Tyler Morgan reportedly hates him for, what does Cromwell view that as proof of?
(a) Cromwell is a good cook.
(b) Theodore Roosevelt's interest in Cromwell's views.
(c) Cromwell's effectiveness.
(d) Theodore Roosevelt's friendship with Cromwell.

6. What does the public prosecutor, Jules Quesnay de Beaurepaire, propose in October 1892?
(a) Civil suit for damages.
(b) Improbable cause for civil or criminal action.
(c) Both a civil suit and criminal trial.
(d) Criminal trial.

7. Who offers a solution letting Ferdinand de Lesseps extract himself honorably and gain income from tolls coming in?
(a) Charles de Lesseps.
(b) H. B. Slaven.
(c) Pierre Tirard.
(d) Philippe Banau-Varilla.

8. The first event after the Morgan Commission that changes in favor of Panama, is Theodore Roosevelt reading news of how an audience, of civil engineers listening to Irving M. Scott in New York, does what?
(a) Unanimously rallies for Nicaragua.
(b) Unanimously rallies for Colombia.
(c) Unanimously rallies for Mexico.
(d) Unanimously rallies for Panama.

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

10. Ferdinand de Lesseps is from a family entrenched in the diplomatic services, which he enters at age 19, and he becomes interested in construction of canals when?
(a) In the 1830s while posted in Egypt.
(b) In the late 1830s while posted in Venice.
(c) In the late 1820s while posted in Holland.
(d) In the 1840s while posted in Prussia.

11. A. G. Menocal tells the 1879 Congris International d'Ytudes du Canal Interocyanique he had been in Panama in 1875 planning a sea-level canal, but abandoned that idea when he grasped what?
(a) The engineering complexities of a sea-level canal through Panama.
(b) The relief of the terrain.
(c) The time it would take to complete a sea-level canal in Panama as it would elsewhere.
(d) The full impact of the Chagres River.

12. 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) Baron de Lypinay.
(b) A. G. Menocal.
(c) Gaston Blanchet.
(d) Armand Rycus.

13. When Jules Dingler quits upon approaching mental and physical collapse and Maurice Hutin steps in for a month before resigning also, who becomes acting head of the entire effort?
(a) Jaques Jonett.
(b) Phillipe Bunau-Varilla.
(c) Alexander de Duponte.
(d) William Kimball.

14. Beyond maps and plans, what is Lieutenant Lucien Napoleon Bonaparte Wyse refused access to in 1878?
(a) A forum with Vice Admiral T. J. Miller.
(b) A conference with Dr. Christian Francis Stephenson.
(c) A meeting with Admiral Daniel Ammen.
(d) An interview with Commandant Harold O. McDonald.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In what way does author David McCullough find all early 19th-century canal plans preposterous?

2. The United States is granted exclusive right of transit across the Isthmus of Panama upon the signing of what document with Colombia in 1846?

3. Jaques de Reinach is the "Micros" article's inside source, but Ydouard Drumont denies testifying, unless he is pardoned for what type of conviction keeping him in prison?

4. Ferdinand de Lesseps lost a son and a wife to cholera in Egypt and invests $7.1 million in hospitals that a Canadian doctor declares the best in the tropics, and an American, decades later, places where?

5. 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?

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