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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When, on March 29, 1885, Haitian-born, xenophobic Pedro Prestan and a handful of barefoot followers take six U.S. hostages and demand guns, an American consul orders compliance; what happens next?
(a) Cmdr. Joseph L. Dow moves the gunboat Wachusett and takes control.
(b) Cmdr. George Burt moves the gunboat Shenandoah and takes control.
(c) Cmdr. William Connor moves the gunboat Tennessee and takes control.
(d) Cmdr. Theodore F. Kane moves the gunboat Galena and takes control.

2. Chairman Morgan appears happy questioning witnesses in February 1902, and his badgering of Ydouard Lampry, the Compagnie Nouvelle spokesman creates what?
(a) Overblown headlines but no substance to report.
(b) Overblown headlines, but legitimate substance to report.
(c) Legitimate headlines, no substance to be reported.
(d) Overblown headlines and lies reported.

3. A Saint Gotthard Tunnel engineer, Ribourt, warned the 1879 Congris International d'Ytudes du Canal Interocyanique that, even 24 hours a day, the Wyse plan including a tunnel would take how long?
(a) No less than 11 years.
(b) Noless than 7 years.
(c) No less than 10 years.
(d) No less than 9 years.

4. Ferdinand de Lesseps lost a son and a wife to cholera in Egypt and invests $7.1 million in hospitals that a Canadian doctor declares the best in the tropics, and an American, decades later, places where?
(a) Comparable in many respects to all U.S. care givers.
(b) Behind all U.S. care givers.
(c) Comparable to all U.S. care givers.
(d) Ahead of all U.S. care givers.

5. Sea supremacy has always been key to national and commercial greatness, and Theodore Roosevelt publishes The Naval War of 1812 while?
(a) An undergraduate student.
(b) A graduate student.
(c) President.
(d) A high school student.

Short Answer Questions

1. In June of 1881, Ferdinand de Lesseps pays Park's price, that has increased $200 per share to $250 cash, consuming how much of the company's resources?

2. Which investigative group of the Panama Affair holds 63 sessions, receives 158 depositions, complies over 1,000 dossiers, but issues a report that embarrasses no colleagues?

3. Which organization is later described as representing the world's first "transcontinental" railroad?

4. Ferdinand de Lesseps briefly speaks at the Technical Commission's initial business session on January 6, 1880, then leaves it to rubber stamp what he wants in a 300-page report calling for what?

5. What results from the six-month expedition led by Lieutenant Lucien Napoleon-Bonaparte Wyse that leaves France in early November of 1876?

Short Essay Questions

1. It is stated the Navy recalls 1850 because Lt. Isaac Strain and his party nearly perish trying to locate a path at Darien, yet what are other reasons beyond that?

2. In Chapter 1 of his book, David McCullough views a number of expeditions that were made in Central America in the early 19th-century looking for the ideal route, but what did he find as common to every canal proposal?

3. Why does Ferdinand de Lesseps lose interest in the Suez Canal?

4. What are the reasons Admiral Ammen opposes the official U.S. plan?

5. What is the professional path for potential French civil engineers in the 19th-century?

6. What critical things transpire in regard to the French canal project in July 1886?

7. What is notable about the date of October 20, 1893?

8. What are the essential elements, pros and cons, to A.G. Menocal's canal proposal?

9. Briefly, who is Edouard Drumont?

10. Why is it yellow fever causes instant panic in comparison to other tropical diseases?

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