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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. Chapter 8 summarizes what evolves in the courtrooms and subsequent to massive corporate collapse that affects how many French investors?
(a) 800,000.
(b) Over 1 million.
(c) 500,000.
(d) 750,000.

2. An illustrated, anti-Semitic daily, La Libre Parole receives attention in September 1892 as it starts featuring exposes of the "Jewish plot in Panama" and the Minister of Justice orders what?
(a) Initially arresting and jailing Ferdinand and Charles de Lesseps.
(b) Arrest and jailing of former company officers.
(c) Audit and interrogation of the former company.
(d) Arrest and jailing of Ydouard Drumont.

3. 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) Behind all U.S. care givers.
(b) Comparable to all U.S. care givers.
(c) Ahead of all U.S. care givers.
(d) Comparable in many respects to all U.S. care givers.

4. Which survivors enjoy lifelong immunity from the disease that comes and goes in waves?
(a) Cholera.
(b) Chagres fever.
(c) Malaria.
(d) Yellow fever.

5. Three weeks following the arrival of news of the Colon fire in Paris, Ferdinand de Lesseps achieves the ultimate honor, induction where?
(a) Instituons Franzaise.
(b) Acadymie Manigance le Franzaise.
(c) Instituons Edifiant le Franzaise.
(d) Acadymie Franzaise.

Short Answer Questions

1. Julesa Dingler restores order and confidence upon arrival, distributes the workload, purges the disloyal, and formulates what?

2. Which President of the United States is assassinated in 1901?

3. Which monument unveiling did Ferdinand de Lesseps attend in October of 1886?

4. Ferdinand de Lesseps has declares publicly that 20 ships daily shall pass via the canal by 1890, and what occurs to the Compagnie Universelle on February 4, 1889?

5. Why is it nearly impossible in the early stages of canal construction to maintain an adequate work force?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What does the swindler Cornelius Herz do before he flees to France?

4. 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?

5. The chances against Panama being selected as the location for a canal over Nicaragua are reportedly 100 to 1, until what two events occur?

6. What do Ferdinand de Lesseps and his companions find in Panama City?

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

8. What does Ferdinand de Lesseps and those accompanying him encounter at Barbacoas?

9. How can the early years of the Companie Universele be described?

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

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