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

2. The Hay-Banau-Varilla Treaty resembles Hay-Herran in wording, but expands the width of the Canal Zone to how many miles?
(a) 10.
(b) 6.
(c) 8.
(d) 12.

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

4. 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?
(a) More cautious than the State Department hoped.
(b) Far less cautious than the State Department expected.
(c) Equally cautious as Concha.
(d) Less cautious than the State Department anticipated.

5. William Crawford Gorgas gathers data on how weather and topography affect Anopheles mosquitoes that transmit malarial parasite to humans, and discovers what?
(a) Direct sunlight, rain, and strong air currents are lethal to them.
(b) Direct sunlight and strong air currents are lethal to them, rain is not.
(c) Direct sunlight and rain are lethal to them, strong air currents are not.
(d) Direct sunlight, rain, and strong air currents have no effect on them.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is marriage encouraged in the Canal Zone?

2. A Panamanian National Constitutional Convention is held on January 15, 1904, and a National Assembly elects whom as President?

3. Theodore Roosevelt times his visit to experience it when?

4. Where does Manuel Amador send a coded telegram to on October 28, 1903?

5. What is the main issue impeding fumigation in U.S. facilities?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is Panama's social structure like?

3. What is it about May 4, 1904, that makes it a significant date in the history of the Canal Zone?

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

5. What is the social life like in Panama for canal workers during Goethals' time?

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

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

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

9. What became of Phillippee Banau-Varilla?

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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