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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 3, Chapter 19.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who offers a solution letting Ferdinand de Lesseps extract himself honorably and gain income from tolls coming in?
(a) Pierre Tirard.
(b) H. B. Slaven.
(c) Charles de Lesseps.
(d) Philippe Banau-Varilla.

2. A Panamanian National Constitutional Convention is held on January 15, 1904, and a National Assembly elects whom as President?
(a) Maurice Banau-Varilla.
(b) Jose Agustin Arango.
(c) Manuel Amador.
(d) Carlos Constantino Arosemena.

3. Theodore Roosevelt times his visit to experience it when?
(a) Height of dry season.
(b) Height of rainy season.
(c) Between Christmas and New Year's Eve.
(d) Panama's Revolution Day.

4. An initial stock offering after the1879 Congris International d'Ytudes du Canal Interocyanique goes poorly, so Ferdinand de Lesseps gives back investors' funds, has another issue offered, and declares what?
(a) The survey requirement of the Wyse Concession is void.
(b) He will complete the survey required by the Wyse Concession.
(c) He will depart for Panama with a team of experts by October 1879.
(d) A double return within three years is guaranteed.

5. Upon their arrival in Panama in late 1879, Ferdinand de Lesseps and his group take the train into the jungle and enter the valley of what wide, brown, looping waterway?
(a) Chagres River.
(b) Rio Grande.
(c) Panama River.
(d) Rio Obispo.

Short Answer Questions

1. "The Incredible Task" is the subtitle for Chapter 5 which chronicles the initial years of the Compagnie Universelle, marked by what?

2. Who is the Turr Syndicate directed by?

3. When is the rainy season and how much is dropped along the line cutting through seven miles of swamps and marsh, beyond Gatun?

4. 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?

5. 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?

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