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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. Ferdinand de Lesseps' name comes up repeatedly before the Morgan Committee through March 1902, reportedly like a what?
(a) Bond drive in support of the Panamal canal.
(b) Advertisement drive promoting the Panama canal.
(c) Call to join the nation's project at Panama in support of the U.S. Navy.
(d) Specter warning against Americans getting mired in ruin.

2. A huge dam taming the Chagres changes the slope, increasing the "cube" excavation by how much?
(a) 60%.
(b) 30%.
(c) 100%.
(d) 75%.

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

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

5. In just over a decade in Panama, the French spend $287 million and expend how many lives?
(a) Some 22,000.
(b) Some 32,000 lives.
(c) Some 12,000.
(d) Some 42,000 lives.

Short Answer Questions

1. When newspapers throughout the world announce "The Great Canal Crash," and deputies order the Compagnie Universelle into receivership, demonstrations across France espouse what?

2. Once digging the "Great Trench" starts at Emperador on January 20, 1882, it moves how quickly?

3. Jaques de Reinach is the "Micros" article's inside source, but Ydouard Drumont denies testifying, unless he is pardoned for what type of conviction keeping him in prison?

4. On May 2, 1902, the second key swaying event following the Morgan Committee reports is Mount Pelye exploding on Martinique; how far away and how many killed?

5. Which steamship company, established just prior to news of the discovery of gold in California reaches the East, receives a federal subsidy to carry the mail?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What critical things transpire in regard to the French canal project in July 1886?

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

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

5. 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?

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

7. Why does Ferdinand de Lesseps lose interest in the Suez Canal?

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

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

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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