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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) John Findley Wallace.
(b) John Stevens.
(c) George W. Goethals.
(d) Theodore Perry Shonts.

2. 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 25-meter barrier.
(c) Maintain a 50-meter barrier.
(d) Return to the shore.

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

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

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

6. 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) Completing a task decades in the making.
(b) Connecting the massive Pacific Ocean and Gulf of Mexico.
(c) "Vanquishing of pestilence."
(d) Greatest manmade structure to date.

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) Mexico.
(b) Colombia.
(c) Nicaragua.
(d) Panama.

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

9. William Crawford Gorgas gathers data on how weather and topography affect Anopheles mosquitoes that transmit malarial parasite to humans, and discovers what?
(a) Direct sunlight, rain, and strong air currents have no effect on them.
(b) Direct sunlight, rain, and strong air currents are lethal to them.
(c) Direct sunlight and rain are lethal to them, strong air currents are not.
(d) Direct sunlight and strong air currents are lethal to them, rain is not.

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

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

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

13. 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) Panama.
(c) Mexico.
(d) Nicaragua.

14. No sitting President has left the country before, so what is the reaction when Theodore Roosevelt announces he will visit Panama?
(a) Uncertainty in the U.S.
(b) Great excitement.
(c) Limited support or approval.
(d) No concern for or against in Panama.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. George W. Goethals allows employees to air grievances where?

4. When do Theodore Perry Shonts and John Stevens land without ceremony at Colon?

5. When is the Hay-Herran Treaty signed?

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