The Path Between the Seas Quiz | Eight Week Quiz F

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The Path Between the Seas Quiz | Eight Week Quiz F

David McCullough
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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. For an overall view of the Gatun dam site, Theodore Roosevelt races up the hillside and takes a look, and then the most famous moment of his trip takes place when Roosevelt does what?
(a) Takes the wheel of a loaded dump truck and dumps it on a train.
(b) Takes controls of a 275-ton train steam engine for 20 minutes.
(c) Takes controls of a 15-ton construction tractor for 20 minutes.
(d) Takes controls of a 95-ton Bucyrus steam shovel for 20 minutes.

2. Some mortality estimates go up to 75% among French immigrants and beds are reported to be at such a premium that the dying have been placed where?
(a) In coffins to await their end.
(b) On the floor in the basement.
(c) Outside the hospital on the ground.
(d) On the railway platform to await a train to the cemetary when they die.

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

4. What 100+ edition, 1,000+ page book holding Jews responsible for all woes appears in 1886, and when the Compagnie Universelle fails, whose "history" of the firm is a best seller in 1890?
(a) Ferdinand de Lesseps' La France Juive and La Derniire Bataille.
(b) General Boulanger's La France Juive and La Derniire Bataille.
(c) Madame de Bonnemains' La France Juive and La Derniire Bataille.
(d) Ydouard Drumont's La France Juive and La Derniire Bataille.

5. What does Theodore Roosevelt state in his first message to Congress is the reason the U.S. must construct a canal in Central America for?
(a) To rival Suez.
(b) For humanitarian reasons.
(c) It is key to U.S. naval supremacy.
(d) For commercial purposes.

Short Answer Questions

1. The United States is granted exclusive right of transit across the Isthmus of Panama upon the signing of what document with Colombia in 1846?

2. According to newspapers, why does Le-Shu-Chang receive the longest applause when the opportunity to rise for recognition at the 1879 Congris International d'Ytudes du Canal Interocyanique comes?

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

4. In late 1879, a large entourage sails to Panama arriving in what season?

5. What does Theodore Roosevelt stress in his autobiography as to his action in Panama?.

(see the answer key)

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