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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 liquidator's ordering a halt to work on the Isthmus instigates what among workers and shareholders?
(a) Polite petition for redress.
(b) A run on financial institutions.
(c) Violent riots.
(d) They want to forget it.

2. Dr. William Henry Welch of Johns Hopkins Medical School convinces Theodore Roosevelt to assign a sanitary officer. Why is Welch's former student, William Crawford Gorgas, chosen?
(a) His mentor was General Walter Reed, a senior U.S. Army physician.
(b) He survived yellow fever, making him immune to it thereafter.
(c) He is the most senior U.S. medical officer with experience in the jungle.
(d) He is the foremost U.S. authority on tropical disease.

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?
(a) 4/5 mile.
(b) 1 mile.
(c) 3/4 mile.
(d) 1/2 mile.

4. What does the public prosecutor, Jules Quesnay de Beaurepaire, propose in October 1892?
(a) Both a civil suit and criminal trial.
(b) Improbable cause for civil or criminal action.
(c) Civil suit for damages.
(d) Criminal trial.

5. When William Howard Taft succeeds Theodore Roosevelt in 1909, the canal project is how far completed?
(a) 85%.
(b) 35%.
(c) 50%.
(d) 75%.

Short Answer Questions

1. The great dam at Gatun, that is 15 times wider at the base than it is high, is how difficult to construct?

2. When, on March 29, 1885, Haitian-born, xenophobic Pedro Prestan and a handful of barefoot followers take six U.S. hostages and demand guns, an American consul orders compliance; what happens next?

3. Which organization is later described as representing the world's first "transcontinental" railroad?

4. Ferdinand de Lesseps' name comes up repeatedly before the Morgan Committee through March 1902, reportedly like a what?

5. A huge dam taming the Chagres changes the slope, increasing the "cube" excavation by how much?

(see the answer key)

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