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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Ferdinand de Lesseps' La France Juive and La Derniire Bataille.
(d) Ydouard Drumont's La France Juive and La Derniire Bataille.

2. Which organization is later described as representing the world's first "transcontinental" railroad?
(a) The Panama Railroad Company.
(b) The Panama Steam Line Corporation.
(c) The San Francisco-Boston Railway.
(d) The Union Pacific Railroad Company.

3. Which steamship company, established just prior to news of the discovery of gold in California reaches the East, receives a federal subsidy to carry the mail?
(a) The Atlantic-Pacific Steamship Company.
(b) The Union Pacific Steamship Corporation.
(c) The Pacific Mail Steamship Company.
(d) The Intercontinental Steamship Company.

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

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

6. Lieutenant Lucien Napoleon Bonaparte Wyse sails back to New York in early 1879 to buy the Panama Railroad Company, but its president is the major stockholder with the leverage to demand what price?
(a) $300 per share, three times the market value.
(b) $200 per share, two times the market value.
(c) $400 per share, four times the market value.
(d) $100 per share, full market value.

7. When is the sanitation problem remedied at Colon when the town burns to the ground?
(a) April 1, 1885.
(b) March 30, 1885.
(c) March 31, 1885.
(d) March 29, 1885.

8. Lieutenants Lucien Napoleon-Bonaparte Wyse and Armand Reclus plan a sea-level canal for Central America between Wyse's 1878 and 1879 visits to Washington, while Ferdinand de Lesseps does what?
(a) Sails for the Isthmus of Panama.
(b) Returns to the Suez Canal after ten years to examine it for stability and engineering techniques.
(c) Organizes the 1879 Congris International d'Ytudes du Canal Interocyanique.
(d) Accompanies Wyse to Washington and New York in early 1879.

9. 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?
(a) Theft.
(b) Manslaughter.
(c) Burglary.
(d) Libel.

10. What is U.S. delegate Admiral Ammen's view of the American canal plan, given at the 1879 Congris International d'Ytudes du Canal Interocyanique, with a 1,900 foot viaduct over the Chagres River, 12 locks at each end, and costing $94.6 million?
(a) Supports the proposal wholeheartedly.
(b) Believes the cost estimate could be lowered somewhat.
(c) Declares the whole thing impractical.
(d) States it requires only minor modifications.

11. Cholera kills 48 of 50 technicians and 150 soldiers and dependents en route to duty in Panama in 1852, yet which Fourth Infantry member survives and becomes President?
(a) Rutherford B. Hayes.
(b) Ulysses S. Grant.
(c) Abraham Lincoln.
(d) Andrew Johnson.

12. Chapter 8 summarizes what evolves in the courtrooms and subsequent to massive corporate collapse that affects how many French investors?
(a) 750,000.
(b) 800,000.
(c) Over 1 million.
(d) 500,000.

13. 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) Mexican delegate Francisco de Garay.
(b) British delegate Sir John Stokes.
(c) Colombian delegate Pedro Sosa.
(d) Dutch delegate Jacob Dirks.

14. Whom is Ferdinand de Lesseps hailed as second only to upon his arrival in Panama with his associates in late 1879?
(a) Hernando de Soto.
(b) Christopher Columbus.
(c) Francisco Vasquez de Coronado.
(d) Vasco Nunez de Balboa.

15. Due to continuing slides, the "total cube" of the cut steadily increases, until it appears necessary for the top of the cut to be how far wide to achieve a mathematically stable 1:4 ratio?
(a) 4/5 mile.
(b) 1 mile.
(c) 1/2 mile.
(d) 3/4 mile.

Short Answer 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?

2. What are the three main routes from the East to the West coasts of the U.S. in January of 1848, when gold is discovered in California?

3. 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?

4. Armand Rousseau's report declares abandoning the Panama project will harm French prestige and advocates what?

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

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