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

2. What do closed subcommittees at the 1879 Congris International d'Ytudes du Canal Interocyanique in Paris establish that the Nicaragua canal route is?
(a) Impractical, unable to estimate cost, and an earthquake area.
(b) Impractical, costing $209 million, including locks, and taking 12 years.
(c) Practical, costing $140 million, and taking 12 years.
(d) Practical, costing $140 million, and taking six years.

3. "The Hero" is a reference to the esteem surrounding Ferdinand de Lesseps at what point in history?
(a) Upon the 1869 opening of his lockless Suez Canal.
(b) In 1875 when he announces his interest in an interoceanic canal.
(c) His foundation of the Sociyty Civile Internationale du Canal Interocyanique de Darien.
(d) During the ten-month 1870-1871 Franco-German War.

4. What does the public prosecutor, Jules Quesnay de Beaurepaire, propose in October 1892?
(a) Criminal trial.
(b) Improbable cause for civil or criminal action.
(c) Both a civil suit and criminal trial.
(d) Civil suit for damages.

5. 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) Of minimal concern.
(b) Enormously unpopular.
(c) Of concern.
(d) Enormously popular.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who ensures the 1879 Congris International d'Ytudes du Canal Interocyanique opens in May, the best time to be in Paris, has final say as to the agenda, rules, committee make-up, and entertainment?

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

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

4. Beyond maps and plans, what is Lieutenant Lucien Napoleon Bonaparte Wyse refused access to in 1878?

5. Both Napoleonic types, Philippe Banau-Varilla and William Nelson Cromwell are the "Panama Lobby" spokesmen, the latter a corporate lawyer with a mystery reputation who pulls strings, what is his motto?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the press report the situation three weeks subsequent to the fire destroying Colon?

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

3. 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?

4. 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?

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

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

7. As the Morgan Committee rejects the recommendations of the Walker Commission, what are the rumors that are circulating around Washington?

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

9. As hard as they work, what are some of the problems the French engineers encounter?

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

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