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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice 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?
(a) Using planks.
(b) By canoe.
(c) By ferry.
(d) Swimming.

2. Upon their arrival in Panama in late 1879, Ferdinand de Lesseps and his group take the train into the jungle and enter the valley of what wide, brown, looping waterway?
(a) Panama River.
(b) Rio Grande.
(c) Rio Obispo.
(d) Chagres River.

3. What results from the six-month expedition led by Lieutenant Lucien Napoleon-Bonaparte Wyse that leaves France in early November of 1876?
(a) All had heat stroke, one was temporarily insane, and two died.
(b) All had malaria, three died, and he calls for a nine-mile tunnel.
(c) All had yellow fever, one died, and two remained to pan for gold in the Bogotá River.
(d) All had cholera, six died in the jungle, and two died on the return trip at sea.

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) "Panama paranoia."
(c) The "endless mudslide."
(d) "The French Connection."

5. Ferdinand de Lesseps' second attempt at going public, is the largest financial endeavor yet, with each share ($100) representing a year's income for half of France's working class, but may be bought how?
(a) 25% down, five years to pay the rest.
(b) 50% down, six years to pay the rest.
(c) 25% down, balance in equal monthly payments for three years.
(d) 25% down, six years to pay the rest.

6. 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) Jules Flachet.
(b) Ferdinand de Lesseps.
(c) Admiral de La Ronciere-Le Noury.
(d) Alexandre Gustave Eiffel.

7. What 1879 Congris International d'Ytudes du Canal Interocyanique delegation drew attention by the maps and plans they brought that had never been seen in Europe before?
(a) The Hawaiians.
(b) The Americans.
(c) The Nicaraguans.
(d) The Colombians.

8. Both Napoleonic types, Philippe Banau-Varilla and William Nelson Cromwell are the "Panama Lobby" spokesmen, the latter a corporate lawyer with a mystery reputation who pulls strings, what is his motto?
(a) "If I had a nickel for every time I heard that."
(b) "I don't have time to waste."
(c) "I have not lost a case yet."
(d) "Accidents don't happen."

9. Whom is Ferdinand de Lesseps hailed as second only to upon his arrival in Panama with his associates in late 1879?
(a) Hernando de Soto.
(b) Vasco Nunez de Balboa.
(c) Christopher Columbus.
(d) Francisco Vasquez de Coronado.

10. Which steamship company, established just prior to news of the discovery of gold in California reaches the East, receives a federal subsidy to carry the mail?
(a) The Pacific Mail Steamship Company.
(b) The Union Pacific Steamship Corporation.
(c) The Atlantic-Pacific Steamship Company.
(d) The Intercontinental Steamship Company.

11. What other term or phrase describes Phillippe Banau-Varilla besides bold, vain, personable, energetic, practical, and brilliant?
(a) Crusader for Scientific Truth.
(b) Comic schemer.
(c) Salvager of "The Great Idea of Nicaragua."
(d) Ordained to restore the tarnished Colombian Honor.

12. 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 nine-mile sovereignty zone.
(b) A perpetual six-mile sovereignty zone.
(c) A perpetual three-mile sovereignty zone,
(d) A perpetual twelve-mile sovereignty zone.

13. What happens to Lt. Isaac Strain's expeditionary party in 1850 when attempting to locate a potential path at the Isthmus of Darien?
(a) The party identifies two locations deemed viable.
(b) They nearly perishes.
(c) The party is successful with no loss of life.
(d) The party is a total loss.

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

15. 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) 3/4 mile.
(b) 4/5 mile.
(c) 1/2 mile.
(d) 1 mile.

Short Answer Questions

1. Julesa Dingler restores order and confidence upon arrival, distributes the workload, purges the disloyal, and formulates what?

2. On his 1879 trip to New York, Lieutenant Lucien Napoleon Bonaparte Wyse travels to Washington and sees whom?

3. French engineers at Panama look on American colleagues as merely adroit at improvisation, but find making do with what is available under pressure difficult and that Suez was too easy, as warned by whom?

4. Cholera kills 48 of 50 technicians and 150 soldiers and dependents en route to duty in Panama in 1852, yet which Fourth Infantry member survives and becomes President?

5. What are the three main routes from the East to the West coasts of the U.S. in January of 1848, when gold is discovered in California?

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