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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) Idyllic for white minority, hellish for black majority.
(b) Equal for white majority and black minority.
(c) Idyllic for white majority, hellish for black minority.
(d) Equal for white minority and the black majority.

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

3. When William Howard Taft succeeds Theodore Roosevelt in 1909, the canal project is how far completed?
(a) 50%.
(b) 35%.
(c) 75%.
(d) 85%.

4. Who orders commissaries established immediately, even if this will violate agreements with Panama?
(a) William Howard Taft.
(b) Theodore Perry Shonts.
(c) Theodore Roosevelt.
(d) John Stevens.

5. When do Theodore Perry Shonts and John Stevens land without ceremony at Colon?
(a) July 26, 1904.
(b) December 15, 1905.
(c) July 26, 1905.
(d) December 15, 1906.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In a 1911 University of California Berkeley speech, former President Theodore Roosevelt gets laughs and applause when he maintains what?

3. When does the Pacific fleet pass through the Panama Canal relative to Theodore Roosevelt's death, and does he view it?

4. "Adventure by Trigonometry" is the subtitle of Chapter 12, detailing how the U.S. moves from what to what?

5. What is the key to the lock enterprise?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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