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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When William Howard Taft succeeds Theodore Roosevelt in 1909, the canal project is how far completed?
(a) 85%.
(b) 75%.
(c) 50%.
(d) 35%.

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

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

4. Who heads the U.S. Army's medical service during World War I and dies in London in 1920?
(a) Walter Reed.
(b) William Crawford Gorgas.
(c) William Henry Welch.
(d) Henry Rose Carter.

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

6. Modest progress is made under Chief Engineer John Findley Wallace, but ends when a medley of tropical diseases results in a "Great Panic" and exodus of American engineers in what year?
(a) 1903.
(b) 1904.
(c) 1906.
(d) 1905.

7. Theodore Roosevelt declares he would have recommended the Congress take possession of the isthmus had the Panamanians not revolted, as which nation is not a responsible power?
(a) Colombia.
(b) Nicaragua.
(c) Mexico.
(d) Panama.

8. The Canal Record, reliable in most respects, includes nothing about what?
(a) Politics, government, or budgeting of the canal project.
(b) Deaths or illnesses of any kind within the Canal Zone.
(c) Divorce, alcoholism, abuse or addiction to drugs, or other negative topics.
(d) Black weddings, social affairs, births, and obituaries.

9. What three men is the lock design and engineering largely the work of?
(a) George W. Goethals, Henry Goldmark, and Lt. Col. Hodges.
(b) Charles de Lesseps, Edward Schildhauer, and Henry Goldmark.
(c) Lieutenant Colonel Hodges, Edward Schildhauer, and Henry Goldmark.
(d) Edward Schildhauer, Henry Goldmark, and William H. Welch.

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

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

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 the service industries only.
(d) Black labor in construction only.

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

14. 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) The canal would not have started if he followed normal legislative channels.
(c) He did not go back to Panama because they would not let him drive another steam shovel.
(d) The canal started because he followed normal legislative channels.

15. Theodore Roosevelt's ship arrives in Panama a day early, so as not to ruin John Steven's schedule, the Presidential party agrees to stay on board overnight, but in the morning the welcoming party finds what?
(a) Rosevelt in the jungle on a hunting expedition.
(b) Roosevelt ashore exploring the waterfront.
(c) Roosevelt's ship gone from port.
(d) Roosevelt having breakfast at a hotel.

Short Answer Questions

1. At the peak of U.S. work, on any given day, how many steam shovels were operating in the Cut?

2. 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?

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

4. A movement begins in Panama in July 1903, as 25-26 gather to talk revolution, including which leaders?

5. The great dam at Gatun, that is 15 times wider at the base than it is high, is how difficult to construct?

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