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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) A daily newspaper designed for a black audience.
(b) A magazine arising in competition with George W. Goethals' Canal Record.
(c) A Sunday newspaper with letters, poetry, stories, other contributions.
(d) Poems about disease, alcoholism, death, futility.

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

3. In the fall of 1902 as discussions of Canal Zone sovereignty reach a critical point, civil war erupts on the Isthmus and Theodore Roosevelt takes what action?
(a) None, as he has no legislative approval.
(b) Sends in the Marines to secure the railroad.
(c) Sends in the Army to secure the railroad.
(d) Dispatches a State Department negotiating team.

4. George W. Goethals starts a weekly newspaper, the Canal Record, for what purpose?
(a) Give an accurate, up-to-date picture of the progress.
(b) Use as a sealant of buildings in preparation for fumigation.
(c) Use as a propaganda tool intended to keep laborers steadfast.
(d) A valid newspaper designed to appeal to all employees, black and white.

5. 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?
(a) $4 million.
(b) $2 million.
(c) $3 million.
(d) $1 million.

Short Answer Questions

1. For American tourists crowding trains, as impressive as they find the Gatun Dam, locks, and Culebra Cut, what gives them the greatest patriotic pride?

2. 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?

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

4. Modest progress is made under Chief Engineer John Findley Wallace, but ends when a medley of tropical diseases results in a "Great Panic" and exodus of American engineers in what year?

5. Who serves as quartermaster general during World War I, finishes his career on Wall Street, and is buried at West Point in 1928?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. What is historically significant for Panama about January 15, 1904?

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

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

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