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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 15, 16, and 17.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did Leopold II gain the throne of Belgium?
(a) 1835.
(b) 1845.
(c) 1855.
(d) 1865.

2. What job did Conrad have in 1980 on the Congo River?
(a) Cargo officer.
(b) Riverboat officer.
(c) Paddleboat officer.
(d) Portage officer.

3. When did Shanu begin working for Leopold's regime?
(a) 1884.
(b) 1885.
(c) 1886.
(d) 1887.

4. Leopold put on a lavish display about Congo at the World's Fair and suggest it was what?
(a) A poor place, being helped by Leopold.
(b) A place of sin, needing missionaries.
(c) A paradise.
(d) A sad and poor country.

5. Where did Leopold send Gerson Bleichröd?
(a) Switzerland.
(b) Poland.
(c) Finland.
(d) Germany.

Short Answer Questions

1. Over what route did the Portuguese African slave trade flourish?

2. A Portuguese explorer was the first European to discover the mouth of which river?

3. Where did Leopold get a loan from after exhausting his money?

4. What did Shanu receive when he went to Belgium in 1894?

5. Whom did Leopold bribe in order to suppress information or subvert the truth?

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