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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who serves as quartermaster general during World War I, finishes his career on Wall Street, and is buried at West Point in 1928?
(a) George W. Goethals.
(b) John Findley Wallace.
(c) John Stevens.
(d) Theodore Perry Shonts.

2. How many times does Theodore Roosevelt return to Panama to see the canal?
(a) 0.
(b) 2.
(c) 3.
(d) 1.

3. Why, on November 1, 1903, do Manuel Amador and a colleague let Colonel James Shaler know Colombian troops are approaching?
(a) To get rolling stock safely moved to Panama City.
(b) To get more arms and supplies brought in.
(c) To get more troops transported in for support.
(d) To get more arms, supplies, and troops brought in.

4. The average death rate in the final year among whites is 2.06 per thousand, and what per thousand among blacks?
(a) 4.85.
(b) 8.23.
(c) 3.51.
(d) 6.11.

5. A movement begins in Panama in July 1903, as 25-26 gather to talk revolution, including which leaders?
(a) Jose Agustin Arango, Carlos Constantino Arosemena, and Herbert G. Prescott.
(b) Phillippe Banau-Varilla, Jose Agustin Arango, and Carlos Constantino Arosemena.
(c) William Cromwell, Phillippe Banau-Varilla, and Carlos Constantino Arosemena.
(d) Phillippe Banau-Varilla, Jose Agustin Arango, and Henry G. Prescott.

6. When Josy Vincente Concha resigns in nervous exhaustion, he is replaced by career diplomat Tomas Herran, fluent in English and popular in Washington, and Herran proves to be what?
(a) Equally cautious as Concha.
(b) Far less cautious than the State Department expected.
(c) Less cautious than the State Department anticipated.
(d) More cautious than the State Department hoped.

7. Lieutenant Colonel William Crawford Gorgas, despite opposition from bureaucrats, maintains the biggest challenge is what?
(a) Accepting a lock vice a sea-level plan.
(b) Getting rid of what is dug from the canal.
(c) The massive amount of paperwork required by Washington.
(d) Conquering yellow fever and malaria.

8. How many years does it take to build the locks?
(a) 6.
(b) 5.
(c) 4.
(d) 3.

9. John Walker does not accept the mosquito theory and insists the solution is what?
(a) Swimming in salt water when possible and not eating local foods.
(b) Getting rid of garbage and staying indoors from damp air at night.
(c) Staying indoors from damp air at night and bathing regularly.
(d) Getting rid of garbage, painting houses, and paving streets.

10. What takes place subsequent to the arrival of Theodore Perry Shonts and John Stevens in Panama?
(a) Shonts becomes the irritating, authoritative master of the isthmus.
(b) Stevens becomes the easygoing, relaxed master of the isthmus.
(c) Stevens becomes the irritating, authoritative master of the isthmus.
(d) Shonts becomes the easygoing, relaxed master of the isthmus..

11. What does Theodore Roosevelt stress in his autobiography as to his action in Panama?.
(a) He had to take quick action, or none at all.
(b) It was not impulsive, the situation called for quick action.
(c) Admits in hindsight it was impulsive.
(d) Maintains it was not impulsive.

12. Who orders commissaries established immediately, even if this will violate agreements with Panama?
(a) John Stevens.
(b) Theodore Perry Shonts.
(c) William Howard Taft.
(d) Theodore Roosevelt.

13. In a 1911 University of California Berkeley speech, former President Theodore Roosevelt gets laughs and applause when he maintains what?
(a) It was not initiating the canal that was the problem, it was seeing it through.
(b) He did not go back to Panama because they would not let him drive another steam shovel.
(c) The canal would not have started if he followed normal legislative channels.
(d) The canal started because he followed normal legislative channels.

14. What is the focus of attention in the final stages?
(a) Improvement in conditions.
(b) Dam.
(c) Canal size.
(d) Locks.

15. Who is hired as America's first chief engineer for the canal project, with the understanding he need not move to the isthmus?
(a) John Stevens.
(b) George W. Goethals.
(c) John Findley Wallace.
(d) Theodore Perry Shonts.

Short Answer Questions

1. The Canal Record, reliable in most respects, includes nothing about what?

2. The "Great Panic" in the Canal Zone results in what?

3. "Adventure by Trigonometry" is the subtitle of Chapter 12, detailing how the U.S. moves from what to what?

4. Panama Patchwork is a publication by James Stanley Gilbert containing what?

5. The ICC's new Chairman, Theodore Perry Shonts, is best described how?

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