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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 18 and 19.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. By who was the official Commission of Inquiry staffed?
(a) Three British citizens.
(b) Three cronies of Leopold.
(c) Three lawyers.
(d) Three independent inspectors.

3. How many black soldiers were in each garrison of Force Publique?
(a) Some.
(b) Several dozen.
(c) Several hundred.
(d) Fifty.

4. Where did Leopold send Henry Shelton Sanford?
(a) Berlin.
(b) France.
(c) America.
(d) England.

5. When was the Berlin Conference, where Africa was divided between the Europeans, held?
(a) 1886-87.
(b) 1885-86.
(c) 1887-88.
(d) 1884-85.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Leopold send Arthur Stevens?

2. What was Dorothy Tennant's job?

3. When did Sheppard travel to Africa?

4. A Portuguese explorer was the first European to discover the mouth of which river?

5. Leopold put on a lavish display about Congo at the World's Fair and suggest it was what?

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