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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. Social life in the Canal Zone during George W. Goethals' era is best described how?
(a) Equal for white majority and black minority.
(b) Idyllic for white minority, hellish for black majority.
(c) Equal for white minority and the black majority.
(d) Idyllic for white majority, hellish for black minority.

2. The average death rate in the final year among whites is 2.06 per thousand, and what per thousand among blacks?
(a) 3.51.
(b) 4.85.
(c) 8.23.
(d) 6.11.

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

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

5. When is the Hay-Herran Treaty signed?
(a) February 21, 1903.
(b) January 21, 1903.
(c) April 23, 1903.
(d) March 21, 1903.

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 Phillippe Banau-Varilla resigns as Panamanian envoy, resumes publishing Le Matin, and asks the salary due him be reserved to build a monument to whom?

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?

4. The great dam at Gatun, that is 15 times wider at the base than it is high, is how difficult to construct?

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

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

3. What is Panama's social structure like?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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