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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. Upon their arrival in Panama in late 1879, Ferdinand de Lesseps and his group take the train into the jungle and enter the valley of what wide, brown, looping waterway?
(a) Rio Grande.
(b) Panama River.
(c) Rio Obispo.
(d) Chagres River.

2. As the U.S. establishes a naval base at Cuba, annexes Hawaii, and acquires Guam, the Philippines, and Puerto Rico, the canal Theodore Roosevelt has been advocating becomes what?
(a) Enormously unpopular.
(b) Of minimal concern.
(c) Of concern.
(d) Enormously popular.

3. French engineers at Panama look on American colleagues as merely adroit at improvisation, but find making do with what is available under pressure difficult and that Suez was too easy, as warned by whom?
(a) Gaston Blanchet.
(b) Baron de Lypinay.
(c) Armand Rycus.
(d) A. G. Menocal.

4. On his 1879 trip to New York, Lieutenant Lucien Napoleon Bonaparte Wyse travels to Washington and sees whom?
(a) Chief of Navigational Planning, Vice Admiral T. J. Miller; Secretary of State William Evarts; and President Rutherford B. Hayes.
(b) Chief of the Bureau of Navigation, Admiral Daniel Ammen; Secretary of State William Evarts; and President Rutherford B. Hayes.
(c) Chief of the Bureau of Navigation, Admiral Daniel Ammen; Secretary of State William Evarts; and President James A. Garfield.
(d) Director of Naval Archives, Christian Francis Stephenson; Secretary of State William Evarts; and Ulysses S. Grant.

5. The first event after the Morgan Commission that changes in favor of Panama, is Theodore Roosevelt reading news of how an audience, of civil engineers listening to Irving M. Scott in New York, does what?
(a) Unanimously rallies for Panama.
(b) Unanimously rallies for Nicaragua.
(c) Unanimously rallies for Mexico.
(d) Unanimously rallies for Colombia.

Short Answer Questions

1. When newspapers throughout the world announce "The Great Canal Crash," and deputies order the Compagnie Universelle into receivership, demonstrations across France espouse what?

2. In just over a decade in Panama, the French spend $287 million and expend how many lives?

3. The cream of the crop of 19th-century French engineers are trained at what two institutions (the most brilliant at the former, and only its top graduates at the latter)?

4. Theodore Roosevelt is in what position when he initially thrusts himself into shaping policy for an American canal?

5. According to newspapers, why does Le-Shu-Chang receive the longest applause when the opportunity to rise for recognition at the 1879 Congris International d'Ytudes du Canal Interocyanique comes?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Among the earliest authoritative studies, the Political Essay on the Kingdom of New Spain, published in 1811, is sketchy about a number of things, but is adamant about what?

3. What is Colon like, where Ferdinant de Lesseps' entourage begins their journey in Panama?

4. What are some of the problems author David McCullouch finds Ferdinand de Lesseps has as being key to his failure?

5. What is the result of Gaston Blanchet's proposal for a 400' wide swath to ease surveying?

6. What transpires when newspaper headlines proclaim the "Great Canal Crash" to readers around the world?

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

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

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

10. What is the situation like in Panama when Phillippe Banau-Varilla is appointed acting director of the French project?

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