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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. When Stanley was paroled as a prisoner during the American Civil War, what did he promptly do after being paroled?
(a) Deserted.
(b) Leave America.
(c) Fight.
(d) Became a trader.

2. What country did Leopold's sister and her husband fail to rule?
(a) Mexico.
(b) Brazil.
(c) Chile.
(d) Argentina.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the name of the Portuguese explorer who sailed along the west coast of Africa in the 1480s?

2. What did one of Stanley's sick employees compare Stanley to a few weeks before dying?

3. When did Leopold issue the royal decree that declared his colony the Congo Free State?

4. Where did Leopold send Henry Shelton Sanford?

5. What kinds of boats were used on the Congo River above the cataracts?

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