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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 3, Chapter 18.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Armand Rousseau's report declares abandoning the Panama project will harm French prestige and advocates what?
(a) Continue with the sea-level plan.
(b) Keep the sea-level plan and adopt the lottery proposal.
(c) Abandon both the sea-level plan for a lock proposal, and that a lottery is insufficient.
(d) Adopt the lottery proposal, but abandon the sea-level plan.

2. For what purpose does Navy Secretary George M. Robeson direct Commander Thomas O. Selfridge to the Isthmus of Darien at Caledonia Bay, some 150 miles to the east of the Panama Canal Railroad on January 10, 1870?
(a) To gather geological and botanical specimens, report on the natives and climate, and to take astrological observations.
(b) To gather germanic and botswanic specimens, report on the natives and climate, and to take astronomical observations.
(c) To gather geological and botanical specimens, report on the naratives and climate, and to take astronomical observations.
(d) To gather geological and botanical specimens, report on the natives and climate, and to take astronomical observations.

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 9 years.
(c) No less than 11 years.
(d) Noless than 7 years.

4. When is the Hay-Herran Treaty signed?
(a) March 21, 1903.
(b) April 23, 1903.
(c) February 21, 1903.
(d) January 21, 1903.

5. Who orders commissaries established immediately, even if this will violate agreements with Panama?
(a) John Stevens.
(b) Theodore Perry Shonts.
(c) Theodore Roosevelt.
(d) William Howard Taft.

Short Answer Questions

1. The 1879 Congris International d'Ytudes du Canal Interocyanique Technical Committe hears proposals for how many passage sites before focusing on the Americans' Nicaraguan and the Wyse plans?

2. When Phillippe Banau-Varilla resigns as Panamanian envoy, resumes publishing Le Matin, and asks the salary due him be reserved to build a monument to whom?

3. 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?

4. What firm tows its first massive, steam-powered dredges to Colon in April of 1883?

5. Secretary of State William Evarts agrees to send Admiral Daniel Ammen and A. G. Menocal to the 1879 Paris Congris International d'Ytudes du Canal Interocyanique in what capacity?

(see the answer key)

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