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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who serves as quartermaster general during World War I, finishes his career on Wall Street, and is buried at West Point in 1928?
(a) George W. Goethals.
(b) John Findley Wallace.
(c) John Stevens.
(d) Theodore Perry Shonts.

2. In a special message to Congress on January 4, 1904, Theodore Roosevelt claims what nation violates a U.S. mandate to build the canal, the "great design" of the 1846 treaty to secure its construction?
(a) Colombia.
(b) Mexico.
(c) Panama.
(d) Nicaragua.

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

4. 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) 1905.
(d) 1906.

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

6. Where does Manuel Amador send a coded telegram to on October 28, 1903?
(a) San Francisco.
(b) Panama City.
(c) New York.
(d) Washington, D.C.

7. 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 50-meter barrier.
(b) Maintain a 100-meter barrier.
(c) Maintain a 25-meter barrier.
(d) Return to the shore.

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

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

10. Manuel Amador looking to improve sanitation and end centuries of plague, invests what amount of U.S. $10 million payment into urgent public works projects?
(a) $2 million.
(b) $3 million.
(c) $4 million.
(d) $1 million.

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

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

13. In the fall of 1902 as discussions of Canal Zone sovereignty reach a critical point, civil war erupts on the Isthmus and Theodore Roosevelt takes what action?
(a) Dispatches a State Department negotiating team.
(b) Sends in the Army to secure the railroad.
(c) Sends in the Marines to secure the railroad.
(d) None, as he has no legislative approval.

14. 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.

15. "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) Blinded by the sprucing up for his viewing.
(c) Absorbing all during the daytime.
(d) With childlike enthusiasm.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many years does it take to build the locks?

2. 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?

3. Crews respond by competing how to top the published excavation statistics?

4. Marie Gorgas provides the best impressions of the American era in Panama, noting Colon is "unspeakably dirty" and depressing and the jungle is what?

5. 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?

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