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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. 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) Moderately hard.
(c) Surprisingly easy.
(d) Almost impossible.

4. Why is marriage encouraged in the Canal Zone?
(a) Fewer workers involved in disturbances after hours.
(b) Reduces sick rate.
(c) Stabilizes workers' lives.
(d) Lower rate of workers wanting vacation time.

5. 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 in construction and Central American labor in the service industries.
(b) Black labor, both in construction and in the vast service industries.
(c) Black labor in the service industries only.
(d) Black labor in construction only.

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

7. 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 95-ton Bucyrus steam shovel for 20 minutes.
(b) Takes controls of a 15-ton construction tractor for 20 minutes.
(c) Takes controls of a 275-ton train steam engine for 20 minutes.
(d) Takes the wheel of a loaded dump truck and dumps it on a train.

8. 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 Panamanians to Nicaragua.
(c) A demand for outgoing trains that cannot be kept up with.
(d) An exodus of service personnel back to their homelands.

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

10. What is the key to the lock enterprise?
(a) Using aluminum in place of steel reduces weight.
(b) Pressurized air lifts gates and propels movement.
(c) Using water to make gates virtually weightless.
(d) Balancing gates through wide weight dispersal.

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

12. "Adventure by Trigonometry" is the subtitle of Chapter 12, detailing how the U.S. moves from what to what?
(a) Talking with Nicaragua, but covertly readying support for Panamanian revolution.
(b) Talking with Colombia, but covertly readying support for Panamanian revolution.
(c) Talking with Panama, but covertly readying support for a revolution there.
(d) Talking with Panama, but covertly readying support for Colombian revolution.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The Hay-Banau-Varilla Treaty resembles Hay-Herran in wording, but expands the width of the Canal Zone to how many miles?

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

4. Who pays Colombia $25 million in indemnities in 1925?

5. 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?

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