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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. A sea-level canal built at Panama is just impossible, and using 1880s equipment, the lock canal approach maximizes what?
(a) Neither technological nor financial limits.
(b) Financial, but not technological limits.
(c) Technological, but not financial limits.
(d) Both technological and financial limits.

2. Gustave Eiffel eventually is able to clear his name, but what does he do afterward?
(a) Continues his building career.
(b) Takes his building career to the U.S.
(c) Gives up his building career.
(d) Becomes a politician in Greenland.

3. Panama is divided into how many sections for work purposes?
(a) 3.
(b) 2.
(c) 4.
(d) 5.

4. Julesa Dingler restores order and confidence upon arrival, distributes the workload, purges the disloyal, and formulates what?
(a) First of several French master plans in Panama.
(b) A design for huge dam with 30% steeper banks.
(c) A plan to eliminate requirement for high laborer requirement.
(d) The only French master plan to be had in Panama.

5. For what purpose does Navy Secretary George M. Robeson direct Commander Thomas O. Selfridge to the Isthmus of Darien at Caledonia Bay, some 150 miles to the east of the Panama Canal Railroad on January 10, 1870?
(a) To gather germanic and botswanic specimens, report on the natives and climate, and to take astronomical observations.
(b) To gather geological and botanical specimens, report on the natives and climate, and to take astrological observations.
(c) To gather geological and botanical specimens, report on the naratives and climate, and to take astronomical observations.
(d) To gather geological and botanical specimens, report on the natives and climate, and to take astronomical observations.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. Who is the Turr Syndicate directed by?

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

4. The Compagnie Universelle incorporates on March 3, 1881, with whom as officers?

5. Who rebuilds Colon after it goes up in flames, killing 18 and leaving some 8,000 homeless?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is it that Ferdinand de Lesseps takes on doing the Suez Canal?

2. What role does Chicago Times-Herald reporter Walter Wellman play in the Central American canal scenario?

3. 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?

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

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

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

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

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

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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