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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 Stanley view the local people in the Congo?
(a) Sophisticated.
(b) Artists.
(c) Competent to rule themselves.
(d) Available labor.

2. What type of possession did Leopold want the Congo as?
(a) Power possession.
(b) Human possession.
(c) Resource possession.
(d) Colonial possession.

3. Where did Leopold get a loan from after exhausting his money?
(a) America.
(b) England.
(c) France.
(d) Belgium.

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

5. Why did most European colonizers focus on Africa's coastal areas?
(a) They were immediately accessible.
(b) The coast was cheaper to colonize.
(c) They had more riches.
(d) The local people were friendlier.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Queen Victoria feel about Leopold?

2. When Stanley got to America, what did he do?

3. How long was the road that Stanley built from the coast to the top of Congo River falls?

4. Who was Henry Stanley's mother?

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

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