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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. George W. Goethals allows employees to air grievances where?
(a) A summary court similar to lowest level of U.S. military three-level courts martial system.
(b) At the Sunday morning court of appeals and in the Canal Record letters to the editor.
(c) The Canal Record letters to the editor.
(d) A Saturday three-man review board consisting of two supervisors and one equal level employee.

2. When Phillippe Banau-Varilla resigns as Panamanian envoy, resumes publishing Le Matin, and asks the salary due him be reserved to build a monument to whom?
(a) Himself.
(b) John Stevens.
(c) Ferdinand de Lesseps.
(d) Thomas Roosevelt.

3. No sitting President has left the country before, so what is the reaction when Theodore Roosevelt announces he will visit Panama?
(a) Great excitement.
(b) Limited support or approval.
(c) Uncertainty in the U.S.
(d) No concern for or against in Panama.

4. Dr. William Henry Welch of Johns Hopkins Medical School convinces Theodore Roosevelt to assign a sanitary officer. Why is Welch's former student, William Crawford Gorgas, chosen?
(a) He is the most senior U.S. medical officer with experience in the jungle.
(b) His mentor was General Walter Reed, a senior U.S. Army physician.
(c) He is the foremost U.S. authority on tropical disease.
(d) He survived yellow fever, making him immune to it thereafter.

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

6. When do Theodore Perry Shonts and John Stevens land without ceremony at Colon?
(a) July 26, 1905.
(b) December 15, 1905.
(c) July 26, 1904.
(d) December 15, 1906.

7. Marie Gorgas provides the best impressions of the American era in Panama, noting Colon is "unspeakably dirty" and depressing and the jungle is what?
(a) Full of disease and wild animals.
(b) Dark and suffocating.
(c) Horrifically dangerous.
(d) Astonishingly beautiful.

8. When is the Hay-Herran Treaty signed?
(a) January 21, 1903.
(b) March 21, 1903.
(c) February 21, 1903.
(d) April 23, 1903.

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

10. William Crawford Gorgas gathers data on how weather and topography affect Anopheles mosquitoes that transmit malarial parasite to humans, and discovers what?
(a) Direct sunlight, rain, and strong air currents are lethal to them.
(b) Direct sunlight, rain, and strong air currents have no effect on them.
(c) Direct sunlight and strong air currents are lethal to them, rain is not.
(d) Direct sunlight and rain are lethal to them, strong air currents are not.

11. A Panamanian National Constitutional Convention is held on January 15, 1904, and a National Assembly elects whom as President?
(a) Manuel Amador.
(b) Maurice Banau-Varilla.
(c) Carlos Constantino Arosemena.
(d) Jose Agustin Arango.

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

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

14. The Wallace/Stevens departmental system is replaced by what?
(a) Geological divisions with one atop another.
(b) Multiple-level class system as in Mexico.
(c) Geographic divisions as in the French period.
(d) Celestial, with each independent of another.

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) John Findley Wallace.
(c) Theodore Perry Shonts.
(d) George W. Goethals.

Short Answer Questions

1. Theodore Roosevelt times his visit to experience it when?

2. Who outmaneuvers the Panamanians into giving the U.S. greater rights in the Canal Zone than it wants?

3. Why is marriage encouraged in the Canal Zone?

4. For American tourists crowding trains, as impressive as they find the Gatun Dam, locks, and Culebra Cut, what gives them the greatest patriotic pride?

5. In the fall of 1902 as discussions of Canal Zone sovereignty reach a critical point, civil war erupts on the Isthmus and Theodore Roosevelt takes what action?

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