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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. Who serves as quartermaster general during World War I, finishes his career on Wall Street, and is buried at West Point in 1928?
(a) John Stevens.
(b) Theodore Perry Shonts.
(c) John Findley Wallace.
(d) George W. Goethals.

2. Why, on November 1, 1903, do Manuel Amador and a colleague let Colonel James Shaler know Colombian troops are approaching?
(a) To get more arms, supplies, and troops brought in.
(b) To get rolling stock safely moved to Panama City.
(c) To get more troops transported in for support.
(d) To get more arms and supplies brought in.

3. In a 1911 University of California Berkeley speech, former President Theodore Roosevelt gets laughs and applause when he maintains what?
(a) It was not initiating the canal that was the problem, it was seeing it through.
(b) The canal started because he followed normal legislative channels.
(c) He did not go back to Panama because they would not let him drive another steam shovel.
(d) The canal would not have started if he followed normal legislative channels.

4. A Panamanian National Constitutional Convention is held on January 15, 1904, and a National Assembly elects whom as President?
(a) Manuel Amador.
(b) Jose Agustin Arango.
(c) Carlos Constantino Arosemena.
(d) Maurice Banau-Varilla.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. George W. Goethals allows employees to air grievances where?

2. What does Theodore Roosevelt stress in his autobiography as to his action in Panama?.

3. 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?

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

5. Theodore Roosevelt declares he would have recommended the Congress take possession of the isthmus had the Panamanians not revolted, as which nation is not a responsible power?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Panama's social structure like?

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. 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?

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

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

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