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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. Thousands of articles create popular view of Canal Zone life, but make no mention of blacks, so government inspectors and fact-finders are amazed to see the entire project depends on what?
(a) Black labor in construction only.
(b) Black labor in construction and Central American labor in the service industries.
(c) Black labor, both in construction and in the vast service industries.
(d) Black labor in the service industries only.

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

3. Theodore Roosevelt times his visit to experience it when?
(a) Panama's Revolution Day.
(b) Height of dry season.
(c) Between Christmas and New Year's Eve.
(d) Height of rainy season.

4. Where does Manuel Amador send a coded telegram to on October 28, 1903?
(a) New York.
(b) Washington, D.C.
(c) Panama City.
(d) San Francisco.

5. Why is marriage encouraged in the Canal Zone?
(a) Stabilizes workers' lives.
(b) Fewer workers involved in disturbances after hours.
(c) Reduces sick rate.
(d) Lower rate of workers wanting vacation time.

Short Answer Questions

1. The Canal Record, reliable in most respects, includes nothing about what?

2. The ICC's new Chairman, Theodore Perry Shonts, is best described how?

3. No sitting President has left the country before, so what is the reaction when Theodore Roosevelt announces he will visit Panama?

4. How many years does it take to build the locks?

5. Lieutenant Colonel William Crawford Gorgas, despite opposition from bureaucrats, maintains the biggest challenge is what?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does George Washington Goethals do after the canal is completed?

2. Why is the initial Chief Engineer, John F. Wallace, let go?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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