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Multiple-choice Questions

 

Now you will be able to check whether you: (1) understood the lec­ture; (2) understand questions about the lecture content; and (3) took sufficient notes to find the answers to the questions you will hear. All right, let's begin this exercise. You will hear twelve questions about the information you heard in the lecture. You are to select from the choices–(a), (b), (c), or (d)–the phrase or statement that correctly answers the question you hear. You should, naturally, refer to your notes when making the choices, so keep your notes handy. Are you ready?

 

 

1. (a) 50.72 miles 7. (a) $1,000,000
  (b) 70.52 miles   (b) $10,000,000
  (ń) 63.81 kilometers   (c) $11,000,000
  (d) 83.61 kilometers   (d) $100,000,000
           
2. (a) 2,930 8. (a) $18,000,000
  (b) 13,000   (b) $30,000,000
  (c) 20,000   (c) $308,000,000
  (d) 20,930   (d) $380,000,000
           
3. it shortened the trip by 9.    
  (a) 3,000   (a) $10,000,000
  (b) 7,800   (b) $134,000,000
  (c) 8,700   (c) $246,000,000
  (d) 13,000   (d) $380,000,000
           
4. to transport the treasures of the 10.    
  (a) Inca Empire to Spain   (a) 300 feet
  (b) Spanish Empire to England   (b) 300 meters
  (c) Panamanian Empire to Spain   (c) 1,000 meters
  (d) Inca Empire to its other South American colonies   (d) none of the above
           
5.     11.    
  (a)   (a) 110 feet
  (b)   (b) 340 meters
  (c)   (c) 110 meters
  (d)   (d) none of the above
           
6. because of 12.    
  (a) money problems   (a) 21 meters
  (b) the lack of workers   (b) 33 meters
  (c) engineering difficulties   (c) 300 meters
  (d) disease and mismanagement   (d) none of the above

True-False Statements

Read the following statements. Determine, with the help of your notes, whether the statements are true or false. Some of the statements require that you make inferences about the information you were given during the lecture.



 

  1. ____ The Panama Canal cuts through the Central American country of Panama.
  2. ____ The Suez Canal is not as long as the Panama Canal.
  3. ____ Because of the Panama Canal, ships traveling from Europe to Japan did not have to travel around the tip of South America.
  4. ____ There had been a good deal of interest in building a canal in the Panama region three centuries before one was ever constructed there.
  5. ____ Reports to King Charles I of Spain indicated optimism about the possibility of constructing a canal in the Panama area.
  6. ____ The early Spaniards attempted to build a sea-level canal to connect the Atlantic with the Pacific Ocean.
  7. ____ Advances in engineering made it possible to attempt the construction of a canal in the Panama area in the early twentieth century.
  8. ____ The engineer who built the Suez Canal directed the construc­tion of the unsuccessful attempt by a French company to build a canal in the Panama region.
  9. ____ Hospital records indicate that construction of the Canal went smoothly.
  10. ____ The United States did not realize a profit from building the Canal.
  11. ____ Each Canal lock is longer than it is wide.
  12. ____ Each lock is about seventy meters deep.
  13. ____ By the year 2000, no ships will be traveling through the Panama Canal because the locks are so small.
  14. ____ Panama is in full control of the Panama Canal at this time.

 

Check your answers.

 

D. Follow-up Activity

 


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