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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. What 100+ edition, 1,000+ page book holding Jews responsible for all woes appears in 1886, and when the Compagnie Universelle fails, whose "history" of the firm is a best seller in 1890?
(a) Ferdinand de Lesseps' La France Juive and La Derniire Bataille.
(b) Ydouard Drumont's La France Juive and La Derniire Bataille.
(c) Madame de Bonnemains' La France Juive and La Derniire Bataille.
(d) General Boulanger's La France Juive and La Derniire Bataille.

2. Who is the Turr Syndicate directed by?
(a) General Istvan Turr, Baron Jacques de Reinach, and Commander Lucien Napoleon-Bonaparte Wyse.
(b) Colonel Istvan Turr, Lord Jacques de Reinach, and Admiral Lucien Napoleon-Bonaparte Wyse.
(c) Baron Istvan Turr, Commodore Jacques de Reinach, and Captain Lucien Napoleon-Bonaparte Wyse.
(d) General Istvan Turr, Baron Jacques de Reinach, and Lieutenant Lucien Napoleon-Bonaparte Wyse.

3. Theodore Roosevelt is in what position when he initially thrusts himself into shaping policy for an American canal?
(a) Former president.
(b) Governor of North Dakota.
(c) Governor of New York.
(d) President.

4. What promise does Ferdinand de Lesseps keep on January 1, 1880?
(a) Cuts the ribbon at the location for the Panama Canal.
(b) Tosses a lucky franc into the bay near Panama City.
(c) Leads the New Year's parade through the capital.
(d) Strikes the first blow for the Panama.

5. Completed after ten years of construction in 1869, what is the significant engineering feat that shortens the trek from Europe to India by some 5,800 miles around the Horn of Africa?
(a) The Orient Express.
(b) The Suez Highway.
(c) The Suez Canal.
(d) The European-East Asian Transcontinental Highway.

Short Answer Questions

1. Jaques de Reinach is the "Micros" article's inside source, but Ydouard Drumont denies testifying, unless he is pardoned for what type of conviction keeping him in prison?

2. Ferdinand de Lesseps' name comes up repeatedly before the Morgan Committee through March 1902, reportedly like a what?

3. Once digging the "Great Trench" starts at Emperador on January 20, 1882, it moves how quickly?

4. An initial stock offering after the1879 Congris International d'Ytudes du Canal Interocyanique goes poorly, so Ferdinand de Lesseps gives back investors' funds, has another issue offered, and declares what?

5. A huge dam taming the Chagres changes the slope, increasing the "cube" excavation by how much?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is Rear Adm. John Grimes Walker?

2. What increases the impetus to build a canal, and why?

3. 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?

4. Who are the three prominent directors of the Turr Syndicate and what are their backgrounds?

5. How do the French account for 1/3 of all their canal digging?

6. What role does Chicago Times-Herald reporter Walter Wellman play in the Central American canal scenario?

7. What does Ferdinand de Lesseps accomplish between the 1879 Congris International d'Ytudes du Canal Interocyanique in Paris and sailing for Panama in December that year?

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

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

10. What are the two routes U.S. proponents of a Central American canal fight for?

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