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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. A Portuguese explorer was the first European to discover the mouth of which river?
(a) Ivory.
(b) Nile.
(c) Sentara.
(d) Congo.

2. What American state was Senator John Tyler Morgan from?
(a) Georgia.
(b) Alabama.
(c) Texas.
(d) Mississippi.

3. What year, after locating Livingstone, did Stanley return to Africa?
(a) 1876.
(b) 18743.
(c) 1877.
(d) 1875.

4. What was the purpose of Leopold's establishment of international organizations to look after Africa's interests?
(a) To provide employment for Europeans in Africa.
(b) To provide someone to look out for Africans.
(c) To provide a smokescreen for his activities in Africa.
(d) To launder money coming in and out of Africa.

5. Senator Morgan wanted the Congo to be a colony in order for newly freed slaves to be what?
(a) Forcibly repatriated to Africa.
(b) Discover their heritage.
(c) Given the option of returning to Africa.
(d) Have contact with their families.

Short Answer Questions

1. What year did King Leopold's control over the Congo begin?

2. Where did Leopold send Henry Shelton Sanford?

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

4. Where was Stanley born?

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

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