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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 3, Chapter 21.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The ICC's new Chairman, Theodore Perry Shonts, is best described how?
(a) Easygoing.
(b) Relaxed.
(c) Tollerant.
(d) Authoritative.

2. Who rebuilds Colon after it goes up in flames, killing 18 and leaving some 8,000 homeless?
(a) Railroad officials.
(b) U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
(c) French engineer officials.
(d) "Seabees" (construction battalions of the Civil Engineer Corps of the U.S. Navy).

3. Who ensures the 1879 Congris International d'Ytudes du Canal Interocyanique opens in May, the best time to be in Paris, has final say as to the agenda, rules, committee make-up, and entertainment?
(a) Alexandre Gustave Eiffel.
(b) Admiral de La Ronciere-Le Noury.
(c) Ferdinand de Lesseps.
(d) Jules Flachet.

4. Phillippe Banau-Varilla goes to the "Lion's Cage," the home of John T. Morgan, and it almost comes to blows when Morgan terms Panama as what?
(a) A "rotten project."
(b) "The French Connection."
(c) The "endless mudslide."
(d) "Panama paranoia."

5. Lieutenants Lucien Napoleon-Bonaparte Wyse and Armand Reclus plan a sea-level canal for Central America between Wyse's 1878 and 1879 visits to Washington, while Ferdinand de Lesseps does what?
(a) Sails for the Isthmus of Panama.
(b) Returns to the Suez Canal after ten years to examine it for stability and engineering techniques.
(c) Organizes the 1879 Congris International d'Ytudes du Canal Interocyanique.
(d) Accompanies Wyse to Washington and New York in early 1879.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which investigative group of the Panama Affair holds 63 sessions, receives 158 depositions, complies over 1,000 dossiers, but issues a report that embarrasses no colleagues?

2. Thousands of articles create popular view of Canal Zone life, but make no mention of blacks, so government inspectors and fact-finders are amazed to see the entire project depends on what?

3. John Walker asks Compagnie Nouvelle to verify it's franchises and title in Pa nama in April 1901, gets no reply by June, and has William Cromwell ask directly how much his client wants. They reply how?

4. What is the focus of attention in the final stages?

5. Beyond maps and plans, what is Lieutenant Lucien Napoleon Bonaparte Wyse refused access to in 1878?

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