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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) 1919.
(b) 1921.
(c) 1916.
(d) 1924.

2. George W. Goethals starts a weekly newspaper, the Canal Record, for what purpose?
(a) Use as a sealant of buildings in preparation for fumigation.
(b) A valid newspaper designed to appeal to all employees, black and white.
(c) Give an accurate, up-to-date picture of the progress.
(d) Use as a propaganda tool intended to keep laborers steadfast.

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

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

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

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

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

8. The Hay-Banau-Varilla Treaty resembles Hay-Herran in wording, but expands the width of the Canal Zone to how many miles?
(a) 12.
(b) 10.
(c) 6.
(d) 8.

9. How fast before the canal becomes a smooth, quiet operation, free from the drama and hoopla characteristic of earlier years?
(a) Decades later.
(b) Very slowly.
(c) Slowly.
(d) Quickly.

10. For American tourists crowding trains, as impressive as they find the Gatun Dam, locks, and Culebra Cut, what gives them the greatest patriotic pride?
(a) "Vanquishing of pestilence."
(b) Connecting the massive Pacific Ocean and Gulf of Mexico.
(c) Greatest manmade structure to date.
(d) Completing a task decades in the making.

11. Who outmaneuvers the Panamanians into giving the U.S. greater rights in the Canal Zone than it wants?
(a) William Nelson Cromwell.
(b) Tomas Herran.
(c) Theodore Roosevelt.
(d) Phillippe Banau-Varilla.

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

13. "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?
(a) It was his initial experience outside the U.S.
(b) With childlike enthusiasm.
(c) Absorbing all during the daytime.
(d) Blinded by the sprucing up for his viewing.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When Josy Vincente Concha resigns in nervous exhaustion, he is replaced by career diplomat Tomas Herran, fluent in English and popular in Washington, and Herran proves to be what?

2. Why, on November 1, 1903, do Manuel Amador and a colleague let Colonel James Shaler know Colombian troops are approaching?

3. 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?

4. The "Great Panic" in the Canal Zone results in what?

5. 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?

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