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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. Which investigative group of the Panama Affair holds 63 sessions, receives 158 depositions, complies over 1,000 dossiers, but issues a report that embarrasses no colleagues?
(a) Committee of Thirty-Three.
(b) Compagnie Universelle Investigatie Committee.
(c) De Lesseps Investigative Committee.
(d) Panama Investigative Committee.

2. 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?
(a) New York.
(b) New Orleans.
(c) San Francisco.
(d) Washington, D.C.

3. 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 Franzaise.
(c) Instituons Edifiant le Franzaise.
(d) Acadymie Manigance le Franzaise.

4. In which book does the author urge no action be taken prior to experts first comparing the pros and cons of all potential routes in connecting the Atlantic and Pacific oceans?
(a) Joining the West with the East, a Nineteenth Century Essay.
(b) Exploring for a Navigable Route; An Approach to Connect the East and West in a Practical Manner.
(c) Connecting the Atlantic and the Pacific Oceans.
(d) Political Essay on the Kingdom of New Span.

5. The results of Commander Selfridge's initial orders for exploration in Central America in 1870, together with those of an additional six expeditions, were to be submitted for appraisal to which agency?
(a) The Bureau of Science and Engineering (BSE).
(b) The Interoceanic Canal Commission (ICC).
(c) The Federal Trade Commission (FTC).
(d) The Federal Trade Commission (FTC).

Short Answer Questions

1. Cholera kills 48 of 50 technicians and 150 soldiers and dependents en route to duty in Panama in 1852, yet which Fourth Infantry member survives and becomes President?

2. Panama is divided into how many sections for work purposes?

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

4. Gustave Eiffel eventually is able to clear his name, but what does he do afterward?

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?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. In mid-November 1887, what sort of new locks does Ferdinand de Lesseps state Alexandre Gustava Eiffel will be designing and building?

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

9. Briefly, who is Edouard Drumont?

10. Who is Rear Adm. John Grimes Walker?

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