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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. 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?
(a) None, as he has no legislative approval.
(b) Dispatches a State Department negotiating team.
(c) Sends in the Army to secure the railroad.
(d) Sends in the Marines to secure the railroad.

4. The ICC's new Chairman, Theodore Perry Shonts, is best described how?
(a) Tollerant.
(b) Authoritative.
(c) Easygoing.
(d) Relaxed.

5. A worker dies of bubonic plague on July 3, 1905, and William Crawford Gorgas immediately orders a campaign to eradicate what?
(a) Stray dogs and cats.
(b) All rodents.
(c) Rats.
(d) Mosquitoes.

6. The great dam at Gatun, that is 15 times wider at the base than it is high, is how difficult to construct?
(a) Unbelievably difficult.
(b) Almost impossible.
(c) Moderately hard.
(d) Surprisingly easy.

7. William Cromwell, on June 13, 1903, leaks to the New York World paper he had a talk with Theodore Roosevelt about recognizing a secessionist Republic of Panama should what continue?
(a) Nicaragua sending forces into Panama.
(b) Colombia being greedy.
(c) Colombia not dealing fairly with Chile.
(d) Colombia ignoring Panama's king.

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

9. For an overall view of the Gatun dam site, Theodore Roosevelt races up the hillside and takes a look, and then the most famous moment of his trip takes place when Roosevelt does what?
(a) Takes controls of a 275-ton train steam engine for 20 minutes.
(b) Takes the wheel of a loaded dump truck and dumps it on a train.
(c) Takes controls of a 15-ton construction tractor for 20 minutes.
(d) Takes controls of a 95-ton Bucyrus steam shovel for 20 minutes.

10. 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) 8.23.
(c) 3.51.
(d) 4.85.

11. How have George W. Goethals' successors followed his aesthetic and military decision by allowing the jungle to get how close to the shore?
(a) Return to the shore.
(b) Maintain a 100-meter barrier.
(c) Maintain a 25-meter barrier.
(d) Maintain a 50-meter barrier.

12. Thousands of articles create popular view of Canal Zone life, but make no mention of blacks, so government inspectors and fact-finders are amazed to see the entire project depends on what?
(a) Black labor, both in construction and in the vast service industries.
(b) Black labor in construction and Central American labor in the service industries.
(c) Black labor in construction only.
(d) Black labor in the service industries only.

13. The "Great Panic" in the Canal Zone results in what?
(a) An exodus of service personnel back to their homelands.
(b) A demand for outgoing trains that cannot be kept up with.
(c) A demand for outgoing boats that cannot be kept up with.
(d) An exodus of Panamanians to Nicaragua.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Theodore Roosevelt stress in his autobiography as to his action in Panama?.

2. John Stevens is scheduled to accompany William H. Taft to the Philippines to advise on railroad construction, when who urges John Stevens to go to Panama as John Findley Wallace's successor?

3. William Crawford Gorgas gathers data on how weather and topography affect Anopheles mosquitoes that transmit malarial parasite to humans, and discovers what?

4. George W. Goethals allows employees to air grievances where?

5. Where does Manuel Amador send a coded telegram to on October 28, 1903?

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