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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. George W. Goethals starts a weekly newspaper, the Canal Record, for what purpose?
(a) Use as a propaganda tool intended to keep laborers steadfast.
(b) Use as a sealant of buildings in preparation for fumigation.
(c) A valid newspaper designed to appeal to all employees, black and white.
(d) Give an accurate, up-to-date picture of the progress.

2. 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 and supplies brought in.
(b) To get rolling stock safely moved to Panama City.
(c) To get more arms, supplies, and troops brought in.
(d) To get more troops transported in for support.

3. A worker dies of bubonic plague on July 3, 1905, and William Crawford Gorgas immediately orders a campaign to eradicate what?
(a) All rodents.
(b) Stray dogs and cats.
(c) Rats.
(d) Mosquitoes.

4. Who pays Colombia $25 million in indemnities in 1925?
(a) Warren G. Harding.
(b) William Howard Taft.
(c) Calvin Coolidge.
(d) Woodrow Wilson.

5. 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) 1916.
(c) 1921.
(d) 1919.

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. The "Great Panic" in the Canal Zone results in what?

3. The Wallace/Stevens departmental system is replaced by what?

4. Dr. William Henry Welch of Johns Hopkins Medical School convinces Theodore Roosevelt to assign a sanitary officer. Why is Welch's former student, William Crawford Gorgas, chosen?

5. "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?

Short Essay Questions

1. George Washington Goethals did not have the easy way with people as his predecessor John Stevens did, so what steps did he take for effective leadership?

2. What is occurring during the initial stage of U.S. efforts in Panama that culminates in a 1905 event?

3. How is it the U.S. must come to grips with Article 35 of the Bidack Treaty in regard to Panama?

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

5. What is it about May 4, 1904, that makes it a significant date in the history of the Canal Zone?

6. What are some of the critical points of the Hay- Herran Treaty ratified by the Senate 73-5 on March 17, 1903?

7. On what issue in the Canal Zone does Theodore Roosevelt place his utmost priority?

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

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

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

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