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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. 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. George Burt moves the gunboat Shenandoah and takes control.
(b) Cmdr. William Connor moves the gunboat Tennessee 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.

2. Who rebuilds Colon after it goes up in flames, killing 18 and leaving some 8,000 homeless?
(a) Railroad officials.
(b) "Seabees" (construction battalions of the Civil Engineer Corps of the U.S. Navy).
(c) French engineer officials.
(d) U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

3. What firm tows its first massive, steam-powered dredges to Colon in April of 1883?
(a) Compagnie Universal de Panama.
(b) Slaven & Herne Dredging & Contracting, Inc.
(c) Herne, Slaven & Co. (later American Contracting and Dredging Co.).
(d) Compagnie Nouvelle de Canal de Panama.

4. John Stevens is scheduled to accompany William H. Taft to the Philippines to advise on railroad construction, when who urges John Stevens to go to Panama as John Findley Wallace's successor?
(a) William N. Cromwell.
(b) Theodore Perry Shonts.
(c) Charles F. Magoon.
(d) John Findley Wallace.

5. When Jules Dingler quits upon approaching mental and physical collapse and Maurice Hutin steps in for a month before resigning also, who becomes acting head of the entire effort?
(a) William Kimball.
(b) Jaques Jonett.
(c) Phillipe Bunau-Varilla.
(d) Alexander de Duponte.

Short Answer Questions

1. Chairman Morgan appears happy questioning witnesses in February 1902, and his badgering of Ydouard Lampry, the Compagnie Nouvelle spokesman creates what?

2. Due to continuing slides, the "total cube" of the cut steadily increases, until it appears necessary for the top of the cut to be how far wide to achieve a mathematically stable 1:4 ratio?

3. The ICC's new Chairman, Theodore Perry Shonts, is best described how?

4. When do Theodore Perry Shonts and John Stevens land without ceremony at Colon?

5. On March 10, 1902, the Morgan Committee reports out the Hepburn Bill favorably, recommending what?

(see the answer key)

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