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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. 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?
(a) He will complete the survey required by the Wyse Concession.
(b) A double return within three years is guaranteed.
(c) He will depart for Panama with a team of experts by October 1879.
(d) The survey requirement of the Wyse Concession is void.

2. John Walker asks Compagnie Nouvelle to verify it's franchises and title in Pa nama in April 1901, gets no reply by June, and has William Cromwell ask directly how much his client wants. They reply how?
(a) They state they are gathering the file, meanwhile have him make an offer.
(b) Offended by Cromwell's blunt cable, they fire him.
(c) They cannot reply until after the annual July meeting.
(d) They say they did not get Walker's query and will get back to him.

3. While dredging predominates in the lowlands, steam shovels, picks, shovels, and what else are key in the uplands?
(a) Dump trucks.
(b) Wheelbarrows.
(c) Horses and wagons.
(d) Railway cars.

4. What does Theodore Roosevelt state in his first message to Congress is the reason the U.S. must construct a canal in Central America for?
(a) To rival Suez.
(b) For commercial purposes.
(c) For humanitarian reasons.
(d) It is key to U.S. naval supremacy.

5. When is the rainy season and how much is dropped along the line cutting through seven miles of swamps and marsh, beyond Gatun?
(a) May-December, 120-130 inches annually.
(b) May-September, 100-110 inches annually.
(c) July-November, 50-60 inches annually.
(d) June-October, 175-185 inches annually.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the three main routes from the East to the West coasts of the U.S. in January of 1848, when gold is discovered in California?

2. The 1879 Congris International d'Ytudes du Canal Interocyanique Technical Committe hears proposals for how many passage sites before focusing on the Americans' Nicaraguan and the Wyse plans?

3. Back in Paris, in mid-1885, Ferdinand de Lesseps stipulates his Panama project ranks how in comparison to Suez?

4. To eliminate rumors he is terminally ill, Ferdinand de Lesseps goes where?

5. Although Lieutenant Lucien Napoleon-Bonaparte Wyse completes his trip to Bogota, Colombia, in mid-May of 1878, and subsequently conducts a preliminary trip to Nicaragua, where does the lieutenant travel next?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is Rear Adm. John Grimes Walker?

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

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

4. What is the subtitle for Chapter 3, "Consensus of One," a reference to?

5. What takes place in Havana, Cuba, during the Spanish-American War of 1898 that encourages Theodore Roosevelt in his zeal for a canal in Central America?

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

7. Briefly, who is Edouard Drumont?

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

9. 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?

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

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