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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

2. Theodore Roosevelt times his visit to experience it when?
(a) Height of rainy season.
(b) Height of dry season.
(c) Panama's Revolution Day.
(d) Between Christmas and New Year's Eve.

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

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

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

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

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

8. 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) His mentor was General Walter Reed, a senior U.S. Army physician.
(b) He is the foremost U.S. authority on tropical disease.
(c) He is the most senior U.S. medical officer with experience in the jungle.
(d) He survived yellow fever, making him immune to it thereafter.

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

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

11. Transfer of the Canal Zone on May 4, 1904, is not ceremonial as Lieutenant Mark Brooke receives keys to the storehouses and hospital, signs a receipt, and the U.S. flag is raised where?
(a) At canal construction site near Panama City.
(b) Over a storeroom.
(c) Over a hotel.
(d) Over a hospital.

12. Panama Patchwork is a publication by James Stanley Gilbert containing what?
(a) Poems about disease, alcoholism, death, futility.
(b) A Sunday newspaper with letters, poetry, stories, other contributions.
(c) A daily newspaper designed for a black audience.
(d) A magazine arising in competition with George W. Goethals' Canal Record.

13. What is the main issue impeding fumigation in U.S. facilities?
(a) Climate is too humid.
(b) Lack of newsprint to seal buildings.
(c) Lack of chemical fumigants.
(d) Lack of devices to dispense fumes.

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

15. Crews respond by competing how to top the published excavation statistics?
(a) Fiercely.
(b) Mediocrely.
(c) Uncompetitively.
(d) Moderately.

Short Answer Questions

1. Social life in the Canal Zone during George W. Goethals' era is best described how?

2. When William Howard Taft succeeds Theodore Roosevelt in 1909, the canal project is how far completed?

3. Why is marriage encouraged in the Canal Zone?

4. A worker dies of bubonic plague on July 3, 1905, and William Crawford Gorgas immediately orders a campaign to eradicate what?

5. "The Man with the Sun in His Eyes," the subtitle for Chapter 18, refers to Theodore Roosevelt's 1906 visit to the isthmus, where he takes everything in how?

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