1.What is the value of the contract to build the canal?
a) $400 billion
b) $40 billion
c) $44 billion
d) $14 billion
2.What oceans will the canal link?
a) Indian and Arctic
b) Indian and Pacific
c) Atlantic and Indian
d) Atlantic and Pacific
3.What opened in 1914?
a) The Panama Canal
b) The Suez Canal
c) The Great Canal of China
d) The Venice Canals
4.How much bigger are ships that will use the new canal?
a) 10 times bigger
b) a little
c) twice the size of those using the Panama Canal
d) 42,000
5.What's the name of the Chinese company?
a) Lenovo Canal Construction
b) no one knows
c) COSCO
d) China Zhongwang
6.What two things will shipping companies save?
a) lives and livelihoods
b) coupons and vouchers
c) money and time
d) power and energy
7.How long will it take to build the canal?
a) 6 years
b) 8 years
c) 9 years
d) 10 years
8.What length will the new canal be?
a) 286 km
b) 77 km
c) 22 km
d) 1,914 km
9.What/Who did a politician complain about?
a) government honesty
b) his bad back
c) not having a high salary
d) the boss of the company
10.How many questions does the congressman have?
a) one or two
b) more than the number of answers
c) 87
d) none