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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who rebuilds Colon after it goes up in flames, killing 18 and leaving some 8,000 homeless?
(a) French engineer officials.
(b) Railroad officials.
(c) U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
(d) "Seabees" (construction battalions of the Civil Engineer Corps of the U.S. Navy).

2. On May 2, 1902, the second key swaying event following the Morgan Committee reports is Mount Pelye exploding on Martinique; how far away and how many killed?
(a) 1,500 miles from Nicaragua, 30,000 killed.
(b) 150 miles from Nicaragua, 3,000 killed.
(c) 3,000 miles from Nicaragua, 15,000 killed.
(d) 1,500 miles from Nicaragua, 3,000 killed.

3. Days after Congris International d'Ytudes du Canal Interocyanique of 1879 concludes, Ferdinand de Lesseps is behind 270 rich investors who are to receive what upon a firm being legally established?
(a) Names inscribed on the Panama Canal Monument.
(b) Property in Panama along the canal route. at bargain prices.
(c) Founding shares at a bargain price.
(d) Tax benefits in France for investing in Panama.

4. Which monument unveiling did Ferdinand de Lesseps attend in October of 1886?
(a) The Washington Monument.
(b) The London Bridge.
(c) The Eiffel Tower.
(d) The Statue of Liberty.

5. To eliminate rumors he is terminally ill, Ferdinand de Lesseps goes where?
(a) To stand beside Ulysses S. Grant at the Eiffel Tower unveiling.
(b) To stand beside Grover Cleveland at the Statue of Liberty unveiling.
(c) To stand beside Ulysses S. Grant at the Statue of Liberty unveiling.
(d) To stand beside Grover Cleveland at the Eiffel Tower unveiling.

Short Answer Questions

1. On March 10, 1902, the Morgan Committee reports out the Hepburn Bill favorably, recommending what?

2. When Jules Dingler quits upon approaching mental and physical collapse and Maurice Hutin steps in for a month before resigning also, who becomes acting head of the entire effort?

3. A sea-level canal built at Panama is just impossible, and using 1880s equipment, the lock canal approach maximizes what?

4. Although Lieutenant Lucien Napoleon-Bonaparte Wyse completes his trip to Bogota, Colombia, in mid-May of 1878, and subsequently conducts a preliminary trip to Nicaragua, where does the lieutenant travel next?

5. 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?

Short Essay Questions

1. It is stated the Navy recalls 1850 because Lt. Isaac Strain and his party nearly perish trying to locate a path at Darien, yet what are other reasons beyond that?

2. What does Ferdinand de Lesseps and those accompanying him encounter at Barbacoas?

3. What is the professional path for potential French civil engineers in the 19th-century?

4. What is Colon like, where Ferdinant de Lesseps' entourage begins their journey in Panama?

5. The chances against Panama being selected as the location for a canal over Nicaragua are reportedly 100 to 1, until what two events occur?

6. In Chapter 1 of his book, David McCullough views a number of expeditions that were made in Central America in the early 19th-century looking for the ideal route, but what did he find as common to every canal proposal?

7. Why does Ferdinand de Lesseps lose interest in the Suez Canal?

8. How do the French account for 1/3 of all their canal digging?

9. What do you find to be Ferdinand de Lesseps' most interesting characteristic and why?

10. What critical things transpire in regard to the French canal project in July 1886?

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