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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 2, Chapter 13.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The liquidator's ordering a halt to work on the Isthmus instigates what among workers and shareholders?
(a) A run on financial institutions.
(b) Polite petition for redress.
(c) Violent riots.
(d) They want to forget it.

2. In a special message to Congress on January 4, 1904, Theodore Roosevelt claims what nation violates a U.S. mandate to build the canal, the "great design" of the 1846 treaty to secure its construction?
(a) Colombia.
(b) Mexico.
(c) Panama.
(d) Nicaragua.

3. Jaques de Reinach is the "Micros" article's inside source, but Ydouard Drumont denies testifying, unless he is pardoned for what type of conviction keeping him in prison?
(a) Manslaughter.
(b) Burglary.
(c) Libel.
(d) Theft.

4. Which survivors enjoy lifelong immunity from the disease that comes and goes in waves?
(a) Cholera.
(b) Yellow fever.
(c) Chagres fever.
(d) Malaria.

5. What 1879 Congris International d'Ytudes du Canal Interocyanique delegation drew attention by the maps and plans they brought that had never been seen in Europe before?
(a) The Nicaraguans.
(b) The Americans.
(c) The Colombians.
(d) The Hawaiians.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does the public prosecutor, Jules Quesnay de Beaurepaire, propose in October 1892?

3. The Compagnie Universelle incorporates on March 3, 1881, with whom as officers?

4. Both Napoleonic types, Philippe Banau-Varilla and William Nelson Cromwell are the "Panama Lobby" spokesmen, the latter a corporate lawyer with a mystery reputation who pulls strings, what is his motto?

5. In just over a decade in Panama, the French spend $287 million and expend how many lives?

(see the answer key)

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