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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 7, 8, and 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What kinds of boats were used on the Congo River above the cataracts?
(a) Coal boats.
(b) Row boats.
(c) Steamboats.
(d) Sail boats.

2. What position did Henry Shelton Sanford hold?
(a) Senator.
(b) Governor.
(c) Ambassador.
(d) President.

3. When did Leopold II gain the throne of Belgium?
(a) 1835.
(b) 1855.
(c) 1865.
(d) 1845.

4. Who did Leopold send Stanley to rescue after the Berlin Conference?
(a) Alma Pasha.
(b) Arnold Pasha.
(c) Emin Pasha.
(d) Ernie Pasha.

5. What jobs did George Washington Williams hold?
(a) Minister and politician.
(b) Minister and doctor.
(c) Minister and historian.
(d) Minister and publisher.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Queen Victoria feel about Leopold?

2. What did Williams write about, while in the Congo?

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

4. How many Africans attended the Berlin Conference?

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

(see the answer key)

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