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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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?
(a) Black labor in construction only.
(b) Black labor, both in construction and in the vast service industries.
(c) Black labor in the service industries only.
(d) Black labor in construction and Central American labor in the service industries.

2. John Stevens feels the Panama Canal can be completed by January 1914, but doubts a sea- level version can be prior to what year?
(a) 1916.
(b) 1921.
(c) 1924.
(d) 1919.

3. The "Great Panic" in the Canal Zone results in what?
(a) A demand for outgoing boats that cannot be kept up with.
(b) An exodus of Panamanians to Nicaragua.
(c) An exodus of service personnel back to their homelands.
(d) A demand for outgoing trains that cannot be kept up with.

4. Crews respond by competing how to top the published excavation statistics?
(a) Mediocrely.
(b) Fiercely.
(c) Moderately.
(d) Uncompetitively.

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

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

7. John Walker does not accept the mosquito theory and insists the solution is what?
(a) Staying indoors from damp air at night and bathing regularly.
(b) Getting rid of garbage and staying indoors from damp air at night.
(c) Getting rid of garbage, painting houses, and paving streets.
(d) Swimming in salt water when possible and not eating local foods.

8. For American tourists crowding trains, as impressive as they find the Gatun Dam, locks, and Culebra Cut, what gives them the greatest patriotic pride?
(a) "Vanquishing of pestilence."
(b) Connecting the massive Pacific Ocean and Gulf of Mexico.
(c) Completing a task decades in the making.
(d) Greatest manmade structure to date.

9. When do Theodore Perry Shonts and John Stevens land without ceremony at Colon?
(a) December 15, 1906.
(b) December 15, 1905.
(c) July 26, 1904.
(d) July 26, 1905.

10. Manuel Amador looking to improve sanitation and end centuries of plague, invests what amount of U.S. $10 million payment into urgent public works projects?
(a) $2 million.
(b) $1 million.
(c) $4 million.
(d) $3 million.

11. The Hay-Banau-Varilla Treaty resembles Hay-Herran in wording, but expands the width of the Canal Zone to how many miles?
(a) 8.
(b) 12.
(c) 6.
(d) 10.

12. 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 controls of a 15-ton construction tractor for 20 minutes.
(b) Takes controls of a 95-ton Bucyrus steam shovel for 20 minutes.
(c) Takes the wheel of a loaded dump truck and dumps it on a train.
(d) Takes controls of a 275-ton train steam engine for 20 minutes.

13. What does Theodore Roosevelt stress in his autobiography as to his action in Panama?.
(a) Admits in hindsight it was impulsive.
(b) It was not impulsive, the situation called for quick action.
(c) He had to take quick action, or none at all.
(d) Maintains it was not impulsive.

14. How have George W. Goethals' successors followed his aesthetic and military decision by allowing the jungle to get how close to the shore?
(a) Return to the shore.
(b) Maintain a 25-meter barrier.
(c) Maintain a 50-meter barrier.
(d) Maintain a 100-meter barrier.

15. "Adventure by Trigonometry" is the subtitle of Chapter 12, detailing how the U.S. moves from what to what?
(a) Talking with Nicaragua, but covertly readying support for Panamanian revolution.
(b) Talking with Colombia, but covertly readying support for Panamanian revolution.
(c) Talking with Panama, but covertly readying support for Colombian revolution.
(d) Talking with Panama, but covertly readying support for a revolution there.

Short Answer Questions

1. Modest progress is made under Chief Engineer John Findley Wallace, but ends when a medley of tropical diseases results in a "Great Panic" and exodus of American engineers in what year?

2. Who is hired as America's first chief engineer for the canal project, with the understanding he need not move to the isthmus?

3. How many times does Theodore Roosevelt return to Panama to see the canal?

4. In a 1911 University of California Berkeley speech, former President Theodore Roosevelt gets laughs and applause when he maintains what?

5. The average death rate in the final year among whites is 2.06 per thousand, and what per thousand among blacks?

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