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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. Marie Gorgas provides the best impressions of the American era in Panama, noting Colon is "unspeakably dirty" and depressing and the jungle is what?
(a) Horrifically dangerous.
(b) Dark and suffocating.
(c) Astonishingly beautiful.
(d) Full of disease and wild animals.

2. When does the Pacific fleet pass through the Panama Canal relative to Theodore Roosevelt's death, and does he view it?
(a) Just weeks before Theodore Roosevelt's death, he does not.
(b) Several years before Theodore Roosevelt's death, he does.
(c) Just months following Theodore Roosevelt's death, he cannot.
(d) Just months before Theodore Roosevel's death, he does not.

3. What does Theodore Roosevelt stress in his autobiography as to his action in Panama?.
(a) It was not impulsive, the situation called for quick action.
(b) Maintains it was not impulsive.
(c) Admits in hindsight it was impulsive.
(d) He had to take quick action, or none at all.

4. The "Great Panic" in the Canal Zone results in what?
(a) A demand for outgoing boats that cannot be kept up with.
(b) A demand for outgoing trains that cannot be kept up with.
(c) An exodus of service personnel back to their homelands.
(d) An exodus of Panamanians to Nicaragua.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In a 1911 University of California Berkeley speech, former President Theodore Roosevelt gets laughs and applause when he maintains what?

2. 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?

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

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

5. Transfer of the Canal Zone on May 4, 1904, is not ceremonial as Lieutenant Mark Brooke receives keys to the storehouses and hospital, signs a receipt, and the U.S. flag is raised where?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What would be an accurate description of John Stevens, the second chief engineer in Panama?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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