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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Ferdinand de Lesseps' name comes up repeatedly before the Morgan Committee through March 1902, reportedly like a what?
(a) Advertisement drive promoting the Panama 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) Bond drive in support of the Panamal canal.

2. Ferdinand de Lesseps has declares publicly that 20 ships daily shall pass via the canal by 1890, and what occurs to the Compagnie Universelle on February 4, 1889?
(a) A liquidator is appointed.
(b) A restructuring of the company transpires.
(c) The company finally achieves an embankment slide resolution.
(d) Company shares begin an upward shift.

3. Although Lieutenant Lucien Napoleon-Bonaparte Wyse completes his trip to Bogota, Colombia, in mid-May of 1878, and subsequently conducts a preliminary trip to Nicaragua, where does the lieutenant travel next?
(a) Washington, D.C.
(b) New Orleans.
(c) San Francisco.
(d) New York.

4. The United States is granted exclusive right of transit across the Isthmus of Panama upon the signing of what document with Colombia in 1846?
(a) The Bidlack Treaty.
(b) The Atlantic and Pacific Accord.
(c) The Panama Canal Charter.
(d) The Panamanian Isthmus Pact.

5. Who is the Turr Syndicate directed by?
(a) Baron Istvan Turr, Commodore Jacques de Reinach, and Captain Lucien Napoleon-Bonaparte Wyse.
(b) General Istvan Turr, Baron Jacques de Reinach, and Commander Lucien Napoleon-Bonaparte Wyse.
(c) Colonel Istvan Turr, Lord Jacques de Reinach, and Admiral Lucien Napoleon-Bonaparte Wyse.
(d) General Istvan Turr, Baron Jacques de Reinach, and Lieutenant Lucien Napoleon-Bonaparte Wyse.

6. Which delegate, so eager not to miss the 1879 Congris International d'Ytudes du Canal Interocyanique opening remarks, leaves his bags behind and has to purchase appropriate attire and call a barber in?
(a) Dutch delegate Jacob Dirks.
(b) Colombian delegate Pedro Sosa.
(c) British delegate Sir John Stokes.
(d) Mexican delegate Francisco de Garay.

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

8. What 100+ edition, 1,000+ page book holding Jews responsible for all woes appears in 1886, and when the Compagnie Universelle fails, whose "history" of the firm is a best seller in 1890?
(a) General Boulanger's La France Juive and La Derniire Bataille.
(b) Madame de Bonnemains' La France Juive and La Derniire Bataille.
(c) Ydouard Drumont's La France Juive and La Derniire Bataille.
(d) Ferdinand de Lesseps' La France Juive and La Derniire Bataille.

9. Going past Panama swamp in late 1879, Ferdinand de Lesseps and others reach a huge, iron bridge washed out by the worst recorded flood at Barbacoas, so they cross the river how to board another train?
(a) By canoe.
(b) Using planks.
(c) By ferry.
(d) Swimming.

10. Panama is divided into how many sections for work purposes?
(a) 3.
(b) 5.
(c) 4.
(d) 2.

11. Who rebuilds Colon after it goes up in flames, killing 18 and leaving some 8,000 homeless?
(a) "Seabees" (construction battalions of the Civil Engineer Corps of the U.S. Navy).
(b) Railroad officials.
(c) U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
(d) French engineer officials.

12. In just over a decade in Panama, the French spend $287 million and expend how many lives?
(a) Some 32,000 lives.
(b) Some 22,000.
(c) Some 42,000 lives.
(d) Some 12,000.

13. Once digging the "Great Trench" starts at Emperador on January 20, 1882, it moves how quickly?
(a) Faster than expected in the dry season.
(b) Slower than expected in the dry season.
(c) Much slower than expected in the dry season.
(d) Much faster than expected in the rainy season.

14. What promise does Ferdinand de Lesseps keep on January 1, 1880?
(a) Tosses a lucky franc into the bay near Panama City.
(b) Leads the New Year's parade through the capital.
(c) Strikes the first blow for the Panama.
(d) Cuts the ribbon at the location for the Panama Canal.

15. The 1879 Congris International d'Ytudes du Canal Interocyanique Technical Committe hears proposals for how many passage sites before focusing on the Americans' Nicaraguan and the Wyse plans?
(a) 19.
(b) 24.
(c) 14.
(d) 6.

Short Answer Questions

1. In July of 1886, Ferdinand de Lesseps requests and gets a vote of confidence, then proposes a Suez-style lottery bond issue to raise how much?

2. For what purpose does Navy Secretary George M. Robeson direct Commander Thomas O. Selfridge to the Isthmus of Darien at Caledonia Bay, some 150 miles to the east of the Panama Canal Railroad on January 10, 1870?

3. The liquidator's ordering a halt to work on the Isthmus instigates what among workers and shareholders?

4. After leaving the bottom lands of Panama in late 1879, while en route to Panama City, the Ferdinand de Lesseps entourage follow what river toward the summit at Culebra?

5. A sea-level canal built at Panama is just impossible, and using 1880s equipment, the lock canal approach maximizes what?

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