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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. Panama Patchwork is a publication by James Stanley Gilbert containing what?
(a) Poems about disease, alcoholism, death, futility.
(b) A magazine arising in competition with George W. Goethals' Canal Record.
(c) A Sunday newspaper with letters, poetry, stories, other contributions.
(d) A daily newspaper designed for a black audience.

2. Crews respond by competing how to top the published excavation statistics?
(a) Mediocrely.
(b) Moderately.
(c) Fiercely.
(d) Uncompetitively.

3. The ICC's new Chairman, Theodore Perry Shonts, is best described how?
(a) Easygoing.
(b) Tollerant.
(c) Relaxed.
(d) Authoritative.

4. Who outmaneuvers the Panamanians into giving the U.S. greater rights in the Canal Zone than it wants?
(a) William Nelson Cromwell.
(b) Phillippe Banau-Varilla.
(c) Tomas Herran.
(d) Theodore Roosevelt.

5. Who orders commissaries established immediately, even if this will violate agreements with Panama?
(a) Theodore Perry Shonts.
(b) John Stevens.
(c) William Howard Taft.
(d) Theodore Roosevelt.

Short Answer Questions

1. What takes place subsequent to the arrival of Theodore Perry Shonts and John Stevens in Panama?

2. Who pays Colombia $25 million in indemnities in 1925?

3. What is the focus of attention in the final stages?

4. For an overall view of the Gatun dam site, Theodore Roosevelt races up the hillside and takes a look, and then the most famous moment of his trip takes place when Roosevelt does what?

5. John Stevens is scheduled to accompany William H. Taft to the Philippines to advise on railroad construction, when who urges John Stevens to go to Panama as John Findley Wallace's successor?

Short Essay Questions

1. On what issue in the Canal Zone does Theodore Roosevelt place his utmost priority?

2. What critical event can be associated with Theodore Roosevelt and the date of January 4, 1904?

3. What are some of the critical points of the Hay- Herran Treaty ratified by the Senate 73-5 on March 17, 1903?

4. Rather than shutting the project down, what are some of the thing implemented by the authoritative new chairman of the ICC, Theodore Perry Shonts?

5. Why is Colonel William Crawford Gorgas sent to Panama?

6. What is Panama's social structure like?

7. What became of Phillippee Banau-Varilla?

8. Which of the three presidents that the Panama Canal is built under is most crucial to it?

9. What is occurring during the initial stage of U.S. efforts in Panama that culminates in a 1905 event?

10. George Washington Goethals did not have the easy way with people as his predecessor John Stevens did, so what steps did he take for effective leadership?

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