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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 outmaneuvers the Panamanians into giving the U.S. greater rights in the Canal Zone than it wants?
(a) Theodore Roosevelt.
(b) William Nelson Cromwell.
(c) Phillippe Banau-Varilla.
(d) Tomas Herran.

2. How have George W. Goethals' successors followed his aesthetic and military decision by allowing the jungle to get how close to the shore?
(a) Return to the shore.
(b) Maintain a 50-meter barrier.
(c) Maintain a 100-meter barrier.
(d) Maintain a 25-meter barrier.

3. "Adventure by Trigonometry" is the subtitle of Chapter 12, detailing how the U.S. moves from what to what?
(a) Talking with Panama, but covertly readying support for a revolution there.
(b) Talking with Nicaragua, but covertly readying support for Panamanian revolution.
(c) Talking with Colombia, but covertly readying support for Panamanian revolution.
(d) Talking with Panama, but covertly readying support for Colombian revolution.

4. The great dam at Gatun, that is 15 times wider at the base than it is high, is how difficult to construct?
(a) Surprisingly easy.
(b) Unbelievably difficult.
(c) Moderately hard.
(d) Almost impossible.

5. For an overall view of the Gatun dam site, Theodore Roosevelt races up the hillside and takes a look, and then the most famous moment of his trip takes place when Roosevelt does what?
(a) Takes controls of a 275-ton train steam engine for 20 minutes.
(b) Takes the wheel of a loaded dump truck and dumps it on a train.
(c) Takes controls of a 95-ton Bucyrus steam shovel for 20 minutes.
(d) Takes controls of a 15-ton construction tractor for 20 minutes.

Short Answer Questions

1. The average death rate in the final year among whites is 2.06 per thousand, and what per thousand among blacks?

2. At the peak of U.S. work, on any given day, how many steam shovels were operating in the Cut?

3. When William Howard Taft succeeds Theodore Roosevelt in 1909, the canal project is how far completed?

4. Marie Gorgas provides the best impressions of the American era in Panama, noting Colon is "unspeakably dirty" and depressing and the jungle is what?

5. 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?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What is traffic like following opening of the canal?

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

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

7. What became of Phillippee Banau-Varilla?

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

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

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

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