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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 4, 5, and 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. In what year did Stanley locate Livingstone?
(a) 1870.
(b) 1869.
(c) 1868.
(d) 1871.

4. What were the two major exports from the Congo under Leopold's reign?
(a) Ivory and diamonds.
(b) Rubber and gold.
(c) Ivory and rubber.
(d) Gold and diamonds.

5. By what year were most of the coastal areas of Africa claimed as colonies by various European powers?
(a) Early 1870s.
(b) Early 1860s.
(c) Late 1870s.
(d) Late 1860s.

Short Answer Questions

1. Before being put on slave ships by the Portuguese, what religion were slaves baptized into?

2. What was the name of the colony that the Congo was annexed to Belgium as in 1908?

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

4. What language were the treaties with the African chiefs written in?

5. Why did most European colonizers focus on Africa's coastal areas?

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