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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. How were the roads and railroads in Congo completed and improved?
(a) Missionary money.
(b) Slave labor.
(c) Foreign investment.
(d) Leopold's investment.

2. What position did Henry Shelton Sanford hold?
(a) Ambassador.
(b) President.
(c) Senator.
(d) Governor.

3. Who did Leopold negotiate with when he decided to sell Congo?
(a) Germany.
(b) Belgium.
(c) France.
(d) England.

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

5. Based on what he observed, what did E.D. Morel decide that Belgium's trade with the Congo was?
(a) Equal.
(b) Unbalanced.
(c) Severely shortened.
(d) Fair.

Short Answer Questions

1. Leopold became wealthy off the resources in the Congo and built multiple what?

2. How old was Leopold when he issued the royal decree that declared his colony the Congo Free State?

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

4. What would be seized until the men of the village delivered a specific quota of sap?

5. Who is Dorothy Tennant?

(see the answer key)

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