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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. The Chamber of Deputies is lobbied by stockholders to grant a Suez-style lottery bond issue proposed by Ferdinand de Lesseps, and he announces what?
(a) He will inspect Panama personally.
(b) He will accompany noted engineer, Armand Rousseau, to independently inspect.
(c) A new director general will accompany noted engineer, Armand Rousseau, to independently inspect.
(d) He will send noted engineer, Armand Rousseau, to independently inspect.

2. 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) Political Essay on the Kingdom of New Span.
(d) Connecting the Atlantic and the Pacific Oceans.

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

4. Which organization is later described as representing the world's first "transcontinental" railroad?
(a) The Panama Railroad Company.
(b) The San Francisco-Boston Railway.
(c) The Panama Steam Line Corporation.
(d) The Union Pacific Railroad Company.

5. Completed after ten years of construction in 1869, what is the significant engineering feat that shortens the trek from Europe to India by some 5,800 miles around the Horn of Africa?
(a) The Suez Canal.
(b) The European-East Asian Transcontinental Highway.
(c) The Suez Highway.
(d) The Orient Express.

Short Answer Questions

1. While dredging predominates in the lowlands, steam shovels, picks, shovels, and what else are key in the uplands?

2. Which survivors enjoy lifelong immunity from the disease that comes and goes in waves?

3. Sen. Spooner offers a Hepburn Bill amendment authorizing the President to acquire the Panama property and concessions for no more than $40 million, only if Colombia relinquishes what?

4. Ferdinand de Lesseps' name comes up repeatedly before the Morgan Committee through March 1902, reportedly like a what?

5. A sea-level canal built at Panama is just impossible, and using 1880s equipment, the lock canal approach maximizes what?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. 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?

3. How do the French account for 1/3 of all their canal digging?

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

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

6. It is stated the Navy recalls 1850 because Lt. Isaac Strain and his party nearly perish trying to locate a path at Darien, yet what are other reasons beyond that?

7. Who is Rear Adm. John Grimes Walker?

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

9. How is the work organized under the French?

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

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