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

2. What did Williams write about, while in the Congo?
(a) The peaceful conditions.
(b) The good things Leopold was doing.
(c) The atrocities he saw.
(d) The horrible way the locals treated the Belgians.

3. How old was Leopold when he issued the royal decree that declared his colony the Congo Free State?
(a) 56.
(b) 48.
(c) 53.
(d) 50.

4. At what age did Williams tour the Congo?
(a) 44.
(b) 35.
(c) 40.
(d) 38.

5. When Stanley got to America, what did he do?
(a) Snuck off the ship.
(b) Became captain of the ship.
(c) Deserted the ship.
(d) Paid for his passage.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Stanley's bizarre route took so long to traverse, that when he arrived to rescue Pasha, what happened?

4. Where did Joseph Conrad spend his youth?

5. Who was Henry Stanley's mother?

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