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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 15, 16, and 17.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How long did Conrad spend as a ship's officer in the British merchant marine?
(a) A decade and a half.
(b) Five years.
(c) 10 years.
(d) Over a decade.

2. When was the Berlin Conference, where Africa was divided between the Europeans, held?
(a) 1884-85.
(b) 1887-88.
(c) 1886-87.
(d) 1885-86.

3. Where did the Portuguese transport the slaves?
(a) Asia.
(b) Portugal.
(c) The New World.
(d) England.

4. What did E.D. Morel determine was the only explanation for what he was seeing on the docks?
(a) Death threats.
(b) Theft of resources.
(c) Willing workers.
(d) Widespread slavery.

5. What is the main disease cited in Chapter 15 as a major cause of death?
(a) Mumps.
(b) Smallpox.
(c) Chicken pox.
(d) Measles.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Shanu receive when he went to Belgium in 1894?

2. What honorary military rank did Williams receive?

3. Whom did Williams abandon when he traveled to Belgium to learn more of the Congo?

4. What was Dorothy Tennant's job?

5. For what crime was Sheppard tried for the publication of atrocities in the Congo?

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