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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. What was the name Henry Morton Stanley was born with?
(a) John Edwards.
(b) John Morton.
(c) John Stanley.
(d) John Rowlands.

2. Where did Leopold send Henry Shelton Sanford?
(a) Berlin.
(b) England.
(c) America.
(d) France.

3. Before being put on slave ships by the Portuguese, what religion were slaves baptized into?
(a) Baptist.
(b) Catholic.
(c) Anglican.
(d) Presbyterian

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

5. How old was Leopold when he issued the royal decree that declared his colony the Congo Free State?
(a) 50.
(b) 53.
(c) 48.
(d) 56.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. By what year were most of the coastal areas of Africa claimed as colonies by various European powers?

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

4. When was the Berlin Conference, where Africa was divided between the Europeans, held?

5. How did Stanley view the local people in the Congo?

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