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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. What was the name of the workhouse Stanley was sent to as a child?
(a) St. John's.
(b) St. Luke's.
(c) St. Nicholas'.
(d) St. Asaph's.

2. For what crime was Sheppard tried for the publication of atrocities in the Congo?
(a) Treason.
(b) Libel.
(c) Slander.
(d) Free-speech.

3. Who did Leopold negotiate with when he decided to sell Congo?
(a) Belgium.
(b) England.
(c) France.
(d) Germany.

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

5. By what year were most of the coastal areas of Africa claimed as colonies by various European powers?
(a) Early 1860s.
(b) Late 1860s.
(c) Early 1870s.
(d) Late 1870s.

Short Answer Questions

1. By who was the official Commission of Inquiry staffed?

2. What year, after locating Livingstone, did Stanley return to Africa?

3. When did Casement go to the Congo to make an evaluation of the atrocities?

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

5. When Morel began to crusade against the atrocities in the Congo and Africa, he became the center of what?

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