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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. Where did Stanley go after the Berlin Conference?
(a) Far East.
(b) Africa.
(c) Middle East.
(d) Russia.

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

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

4. What would be seized until the men of the village delivered a specific quota of sap?
(a) The animals.
(b) The tools and food.
(c) The women and children.
(d) The medicine and fuel.

5. Leopold put on a lavish display about Congo at the World's Fair and suggest it was what?
(a) A poor place, being helped by Leopold.
(b) A paradise.
(c) A place of sin, needing missionaries.
(d) A sad and poor country.

Short Answer Questions

1. What country did Leopold's sister and her husband fail to rule?

2. What was the purpose of Leopold's establishment of international organizations to look after Africa's interests?

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

4. How did many Europeans die in Congo?

5. In what country was Williams commissioned a lieutenant?

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