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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 10 and 11.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What kind of ivory did Stanley transport out of the Congo?
(a) Ivory rocks.
(b) Processed ivory.
(c) Balls of ivory.
(d) Elephant tusks.

2. What country did Leopold grant droit de preference to?
(a) England.
(b) Portugal.
(c) France.
(d) Spain.

3. What would be seized until the men of the village delivered a specific quota of sap?
(a) The medicine and fuel.
(b) The animals.
(c) The tools and food.
(d) The women and children.

4. What did Sheppard write many letters to international contacts complaining about?
(a) The lack of money in the Congo.
(b) The abuses in the Congo.
(c) The need for more missionaries in the Congo.
(d) The conditions for white men in the Congo.

5. Who did Leopold want to retain political power in the Congo?
(a) The local chiefs.
(b) The Africans.
(c) Himself.
(d) White men.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What did coagulated sap from the wild vines in the Congo form the basis of?

3. When was Henry Morton Stanley born?

4. Senator Morgan wanted the Congo to be a colony in order for newly freed slaves to be what?

5. What did Sheppard's native Congo name mean?

(see the answer key)

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