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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. In a 1911 University of California Berkeley speech, former President Theodore Roosevelt gets laughs and applause when he maintains what?
(a) He did not go back to Panama because they would not let him drive another steam shovel.
(b) The canal started because he followed normal legislative channels.
(c) The canal would not have started if he followed normal legislative channels.
(d) It was not initiating the canal that was the problem, it was seeing it through.

2. Who heads the U.S. Army's medical service during World War I and dies in London in 1920?
(a) William Henry Welch.
(b) Henry Rose Carter.
(c) Walter Reed.
(d) William Crawford Gorgas.

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

4. 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) 10.
(c) 6.
(d) 12.

5. Theodore Roosevelt's ship arrives in Panama a day early, so as not to ruin John Steven's schedule, the Presidential party agrees to stay on board overnight, but in the morning the welcoming party finds what?
(a) Roosevelt's ship gone from port.
(b) Roosevelt having breakfast at a hotel.
(c) Roosevelt ashore exploring the waterfront.
(d) Rosevelt in the jungle on a hunting expedition.

Short Answer Questions

1. A movement begins in Panama in July 1903, as 25-26 gather to talk revolution, including which leaders?

2. 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?

3. George W. Goethals allows employees to air grievances where?

4. 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?

5. 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?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the design of the largest moving part of the canal system?

2. What is traffic like following opening of the canal?

3. Where does David McCullough get his subtitle for Chapter 12?

4. Why is the initial Chief Engineer, John F. Wallace, let go?

5. What takes place in early 1907 that seals John Stevens' fate as chief engineer?

6. Why is Colonel William Crawford Gorgas sent to Panama?

7. Which of the three presidents that the Panama Canal is built under is most crucial to it?

8. Rather than shutting the project down, what are some of the thing implemented by the authoritative new chairman of the ICC, Theodore Perry Shonts?

9. What is Panama's social structure like?

10. What would be an accurate description of John Stevens, the second chief engineer in Panama?

(see the answer keys)

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