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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. When Phillippe Banau-Varilla resigns as Panamanian envoy, resumes publishing Le Matin, and asks the salary due him be reserved to build a monument to whom?
(a) John Stevens.
(b) Thomas Roosevelt.
(c) Himself.
(d) Ferdinand de Lesseps.

3. "The Man with the Sun in His Eyes," the subtitle for Chapter 18, refers to Theodore Roosevelt's 1906 visit to the isthmus, where he takes everything in how?
(a) With childlike enthusiasm.
(b) Absorbing all during the daytime.
(c) Blinded by the sprucing up for his viewing.
(d) It was his initial experience outside the U.S.

4. 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.

5. Transfer of the Canal Zone on May 4, 1904, is not ceremonial as Lieutenant Mark Brooke receives keys to the storehouses and hospital, signs a receipt, and the U.S. flag is raised where?
(a) Over a hotel.
(b) Over a storeroom.
(c) At canal construction site near Panama City.
(d) Over a hospital.

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

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

8. 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.

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

10. How fast before the canal becomes a smooth, quiet operation, free from the drama and hoopla characteristic of earlier years?
(a) Decades later.
(b) Quickly.
(c) Slowly.
(d) Very slowly.

11. Who outmaneuvers the Panamanians into giving the U.S. greater rights in the Canal Zone than it wants?
(a) William Nelson Cromwell.
(b) Phillippe Banau-Varilla.
(c) Tomas Herran.
(d) Theodore Roosevelt.

12. No sitting President has left the country before, so what is the reaction when Theodore Roosevelt announces he will visit Panama?
(a) Uncertainty in the U.S.
(b) Limited support or approval.
(c) Great excitement.
(d) No concern for or against in Panama.

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

14. 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) Stevens becomes the irritating, authoritative master of the isthmus.
(c) Shonts becomes the irritating, authoritative master of the isthmus.
(d) Shonts becomes the easygoing, relaxed master of the isthmus..

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. Theodore Roosevelt times his visit to experience it when?

2. Who serves as quartermaster general during World War I, finishes his career on Wall Street, and is buried at West Point in 1928?

3. Why, on November 1, 1903, do Manuel Amador and a colleague let Colonel James Shaler know Colombian troops are approaching?

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

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

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