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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. 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 rolling stock safely moved to Panama City.
(c) To get more arms, supplies, and troops brought in.
(d) To get more troops transported in for support.

5. Who lives to read about the opening of the Panama Canal in their quiet retirements?
(a) Ferdinand de Lesseps, Charles de Lesseps, and Phillippe Banau-Varilla.
(b) Charles de Lesseps, Dennis Hart Mahan, and Thomas O. Selfridge.
(c) Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, and Phillippe Banau-Varilla.
(d) Phillippe Banau-Varilla, Charles de Lesseps, and Dennis Hart Mahan.

6. 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) Phillippe Banau-Varilla, Jose Agustin Arango, and Henry G. Prescott.
(d) William Cromwell, Phillippe Banau-Varilla, and Carlos Constantino Arosemena.

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

8. 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) Astonishingly beautiful.
(b) Dark and suffocating.
(c) Full of disease and wild animals.
(d) Horrifically dangerous.

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

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

11. 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) Thomas Roosevelt.
(b) John Stevens.
(c) Himself.
(d) Ferdinand de Lesseps.

12. Social life in the Canal Zone during George W. Goethals' era is best described how?
(a) Equal for white minority and the black majority.
(b) Idyllic for white minority, hellish for black majority.
(c) Idyllic for white majority, hellish for black minority.
(d) Equal for white majority and black minority.

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

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

15. John Stevens feels the Panama Canal can be completed by January 1914, but doubts a sea- level version can be prior to what year?
(a) 1921.
(b) 1924.
(c) 1916.
(d) 1919.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who heads the U.S. Army's medical service during World War I and dies in London in 1920?

3. Why is marriage encouraged in the Canal Zone?

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?

5. What three men is the lock design and engineering largely the work of?

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