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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 3, Chapter 17.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Chairman Morgan appears happy questioning witnesses in February 1902, and his badgering of Ydouard Lampry, the Compagnie Nouvelle spokesman creates what?
(a) Overblown headlines, but legitimate substance to report.
(b) Legitimate headlines, no substance to be reported.
(c) Overblown headlines and lies reported.
(d) Overblown headlines but no substance to report.

2. Julesa Dingler restores order and confidence upon arrival, distributes the workload, purges the disloyal, and formulates what?
(a) A plan to eliminate requirement for high laborer requirement.
(b) First of several French master plans in Panama.
(c) The only French master plan to be had in Panama.
(d) A design for huge dam with 30% steeper banks.

3. While dredging predominates in the lowlands, steam shovels, picks, shovels, and what else are key in the uplands?
(a) Horses and wagons.
(b) Dump trucks.
(c) Railway cars.
(d) Wheelbarrows.

4. On May 2, 1902, the second key swaying event following the Morgan Committee reports is Mount Pelye exploding on Martinique; how far away and how many killed?
(a) 1,500 miles from Nicaragua, 3,000 killed.
(b) 1,500 miles from Nicaragua, 30,000 killed.
(c) 3,000 miles from Nicaragua, 15,000 killed.
(d) 150 miles from Nicaragua, 3,000 killed.

5. When, on March 29, 1885, Haitian-born, xenophobic Pedro Prestan and a handful of barefoot followers take six U.S. hostages and demand guns, an American consul orders compliance; what happens next?
(a) Cmdr. William Connor moves the gunboat Tennessee and takes control.
(b) Cmdr. George Burt moves the gunboat Shenandoah and takes control.
(c) Cmdr. Theodore F. Kane moves the gunboat Galena and takes control.
(d) Cmdr. Joseph L. Dow moves the gunboat Wachusett and takes control.

Short Answer Questions

1. What firm tows its first massive, steam-powered dredges to Colon in April of 1883?

2. Ferdinand de Lesseps' name comes up repeatedly before the Morgan Committee through March 1902, reportedly like a what?

3. Company physicians agree on what as the best advice regarding the maladies associated with Panama?

4. What takes place subsequent to the arrival of Theodore Perry Shonts and John Stevens in Panama?

5. Who rebuilds Colon after it goes up in flames, killing 18 and leaving some 8,000 homeless?

(see the answer key)

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