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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. What did one of Stanley's sick employees compare Stanley to a few weeks before dying?
(a) A boat captain.
(b) A slavedriver.
(c) A lawyer.
(d) A blacksmith.

2. Where did Stanley become a celebrity for being the first European to explore Africa's interior?
(a) France.
(b) Germany.
(c) Prussia.
(d) England.

3. How did Queen Victoria feel about Leopold?
(a) He was very handsome.
(b) He was too eccentric.
(c) He was evil.
(d) He had too much power.

4. How did many Europeans die in Congo?
(a) Disease.
(b) Violence.
(c) Accidents.
(d) Old age.

5. When did Leopold issue the royal decree that declared his colony the Congo Free State?
(a) 1887.
(b) 1888.
(c) 1885.
(d) 1886.

Short Answer Questions

1. What American state was Senator John Tyler Morgan from?

2. What disease did Williams contract when he left the Congo?

3. What position did Henry Shelton Sanford hold?

4. When Stanley was paroled as a prisoner during the American Civil War, what did he promptly do after being paroled?

5. What year was the Force Publique established?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did John Rowlands adopt the last name Stanley?

2. What happened to the Europeans on Stanley's expedition in 1874?

3. Why did Leopold want the soldiers in one area to be of a different cultural unit than the subjects in that area?

4. What did Stanley pretend to be once he was a celebrity?

5. What military did George Washington Williams have after the American Civil War?

6. Why was Leopold easily able to discredit Williams' reports of atrocities in the Congo?

7. What did Leopold do when the venture in the Congo consumed all his funds?

8. How does Hochschild begin the book?

9. How did Leopold maneuver and manage Stanley?

10. What did the treaties Stanley negotiated with the local chiefs trade for brightly colored cloth?

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