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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. To eliminate rumors he is terminally ill, Ferdinand de Lesseps goes where?
(a) To stand beside Ulysses S. Grant at the Statue of Liberty unveiling.
(b) To stand beside Grover Cleveland at the Eiffel Tower unveiling.
(c) To stand beside Grover Cleveland at the Statue of Liberty unveiling.
(d) To stand beside Ulysses S. Grant at the Eiffel Tower unveiling.

2. Sen. Spooner offers a Hepburn Bill amendment authorizing the President to acquire the Panama property and concessions for no more than $40 million, only if Colombia relinquishes what?
(a) A perpetual six-mile sovereignty zone.
(b) A perpetual nine-mile sovereignty zone.
(c) A perpetual twelve-mile sovereignty zone.
(d) A perpetual three-mile sovereignty zone,

3. In November 1881, who dies the apparent victim of malaria, the most common tropical disease?
(a) Henri Bionnr.
(b) Abel Couvreux.
(c) Lieutenant Reclus.
(d) Gaston Blanchet.

4. Ferdinand de Lesseps lost a son and a wife to cholera in Egypt and invests $7.1 million in hospitals that a Canadian doctor declares the best in the tropics, and an American, decades later, places where?
(a) Ahead of all U.S. care givers.
(b) Behind all U.S. care givers.
(c) Comparable to all U.S. care givers.
(d) Comparable in many respects to all U.S. care givers.

5. In late 1879, a large entourage sails to Panama arriving in what season?
(a) Rainy.
(b) Hurricane.
(c) Typhoon.
(d) Dry.

Short Answer Questions

1. Going past Panama swamp in late 1879, Ferdinand de Lesseps and others reach a huge, iron bridge washed out by the worst recorded flood at Barbacoas, so they cross the river how to board another train?

2. Panama is divided into how many sections for work purposes?

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

4. Whom is Ferdinand de Lesseps hailed as second only to upon his arrival in Panama with his associates in late 1879?

5. Ferdinand de Lesseps resells lottery bonds on Nov. 15, 1887, and says Gustave Eiffel will build two huge lock flights, gates, and apparatus to lift ships over the Chagres at flood stage that are what?

(see the answer key)

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