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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 2, Chapter 10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Phillippe Banau-Varilla's Cincinnati civic speech of building a shorter, cheaper alternate to Nicaragua, glosses over mudslides, disease, his stock holdings, and adds what new theme to the debate?
(a) Nicaragua's political uneasiness.
(b) Nicaragua's recurring forest fires.
(c) Panama's lack of volcanoes.
(d) Panama's lack of pending revolution.

2. 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) Rio Obispo.
(b) Chagres River.
(c) Rio Grande.
(d) Panama River.

3. A Saint Gotthard Tunnel engineer, Ribourt, warned the 1879 Congris International d'Ytudes du Canal Interocyanique that, even 24 hours a day, the Wyse plan including a tunnel would take how long?
(a) No less than 10 years.
(b) No less than 11 years.
(c) Noless than 7 years.
(d) No less than 9 years.

4. Lieutenant Lucien Napoleon Bonaparte Wyse sails back to New York in early 1879 to buy the Panama Railroad Company, but its president is the major stockholder with the leverage to demand what price?
(a) $100 per share, full market value.
(b) $200 per share, two times the market value.
(c) $400 per share, four times the market value.
(d) $300 per share, three times the market value.

5. Which President of the United States is assassinated in 1901?
(a) Franklin D. Roosevelt.
(b) Grover Cleveland.
(c) William Howard Taft.
(d) William McKinley.

Short Answer Questions

1. Armand Rousseau's report declares abandoning the Panama project will harm French prestige and advocates what?

2. Completed after ten years of construction in 1869, what is the significant engineering feat that shortens the trek from Europe to India by some 5,800 miles around the Horn of Africa?

3. After forming his private investment syndicate, Ferdinand de Lesseps next obtains the Wyse Concession when he purchases the Turr Syndicate for $2 million to be paid how?

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. Who offers a solution letting Ferdinand de Lesseps extract himself honorably and gain income from tolls coming in?

(see the answer key)

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