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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. 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?
(a) John Findley Wallace.
(b) Charles F. Magoon.
(c) William N. Cromwell.
(d) Theodore Perry Shonts.

2. The Canal Record, reliable in most respects, includes nothing about what?
(a) Black weddings, social affairs, births, and obituaries.
(b) Divorce, alcoholism, abuse or addiction to drugs, or other negative topics.
(c) Politics, government, or budgeting of the canal project.
(d) Deaths or illnesses of any kind within the Canal Zone.

3. How many times does Theodore Roosevelt return to Panama to see the canal?
(a) 2.
(b) 3.
(c) 1.
(d) 0.

4. What takes place subsequent to the arrival of Theodore Perry Shonts and John Stevens in Panama?
(a) Shonts becomes the easygoing, relaxed master of the isthmus..
(b) Stevens becomes the irritating, authoritative master of the isthmus.
(c) Stevens becomes the easygoing, relaxed master of the isthmus.
(d) Shonts becomes the irritating, authoritative master of the isthmus.

5. A Panamanian National Constitutional Convention is held on January 15, 1904, and a National Assembly elects whom as President?
(a) Maurice Banau-Varilla.
(b) Manuel Amador.
(c) Carlos Constantino Arosemena.
(d) Jose Agustin Arango.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Josy Vincente Concha resigns in nervous exhaustion, he is replaced by career diplomat Tomas Herran, fluent in English and popular in Washington, and Herran proves to be what?

2. Why is marriage encouraged in the Canal Zone?

3. Manuel Amador looking to improve sanitation and end centuries of plague, invests what amount of U.S. $10 million payment into urgent public works projects?

4. Theodore Roosevelt declares he would have recommended the Congress take possession of the isthmus had the Panamanians not revolted, as which nation is not a responsible power?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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. What takes place in early 1907 that seals John Stevens' fate as chief engineer?

5. How is it the U.S. must come to grips with Article 35 of the Bidack Treaty in regard to Panama?

6. What is the focus of attention from 1907-1913?

7. Where does David McCullough get his subtitle for Chapter 12?

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

9. What is the design of the largest moving part of the canal system?

10. What is Panama's social structure like?

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