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

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

2. Theodore Roosevelt declares he would have recommended the Congress take possession of the isthmus had the Panamanians not revolted, as which nation is not a responsible power?
(a) Colombia.
(b) Panama.
(c) Mexico.
(d) Nicaragua.

3. Where does Manuel Amador send a coded telegram to on October 28, 1903?
(a) Panama City.
(b) Washington, D.C.
(c) San Francisco.
(d) New York.

4. How many times does Theodore Roosevelt return to Panama to see the canal?
(a) 0.
(b) 1.
(c) 2.
(d) 3.

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

6. Why, on November 1, 1903, do Manuel Amador and a colleague let Colonel James Shaler know Colombian troops are approaching?
(a) To get more arms, supplies, and troops brought in.
(b) To get more troops transported in for support.
(c) To get rolling stock safely moved to Panama City.
(d) To get more arms and supplies brought in.

7. A Panamanian National Constitutional Convention is held on January 15, 1904, and a National Assembly elects whom as President?
(a) Manuel Amador.
(b) Jose Agustin Arango.
(c) Maurice Banau-Varilla.
(d) Carlos Constantino Arosemena.

8. When Josy Vincente Concha resigns in nervous exhaustion, he is replaced by career diplomat Tomas Herran, fluent in English and popular in Washington, and Herran proves to be what?
(a) Less cautious than the State Department anticipated.
(b) More cautious than the State Department hoped.
(c) Far less cautious than the State Department expected.
(d) Equally cautious as Concha.

9. 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) 1924.
(b) 1919.
(c) 1916.
(d) 1921.

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

11. What takes place subsequent to the arrival of Theodore Perry Shonts and John Stevens in Panama?
(a) Stevens becomes the easygoing, relaxed master of the isthmus.
(b) Shonts becomes the easygoing, relaxed master of the isthmus..
(c) Shonts becomes the irritating, authoritative master of the isthmus.
(d) Stevens becomes the irritating, authoritative master of the isthmus.

12. 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, painting houses, and paving streets.
(c) Getting rid of garbage and staying indoors from damp air at night.
(d) Swimming in salt water when possible and not eating local foods.

13. 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) Connecting the massive Pacific Ocean and Gulf of Mexico.
(b) "Vanquishing of pestilence."
(c) Greatest manmade structure to date.
(d) Completing a task decades in the making.

14. The Canal Record, reliable in most respects, includes nothing about what?
(a) Politics, government, or budgeting of the canal project.
(b) Divorce, alcoholism, abuse or addiction to drugs, or other negative topics.
(c) Deaths or illnesses of any kind within the Canal Zone.
(d) Black weddings, social affairs, births, and obituaries.

15. John F. Wallace has a job offer he cannot say "no" to, but William H. Taft feels betrayed as he tailored the new ICC to his wishes, and confronts him to dress him down and demand a resignation where?
(a) Washington, D.C.
(b) San Francisco.
(c) Panama City.
(d) New York.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the fall of 1902 as discussions of Canal Zone sovereignty reach a critical point, civil war erupts on the Isthmus and Theodore Roosevelt takes what action?

2. When does the Pacific fleet pass through the Panama Canal relative to Theodore Roosevelt's death, and does he view it?

3. William Cromwell, on June 13, 1903, leaks to the New York World paper he had a talk with Theodore Roosevelt about recognizing a secessionist Republic of Panama should what continue?

4. 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?

5. When William Howard Taft succeeds Theodore Roosevelt in 1909, the canal project is how far completed?

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