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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What country did Leopold grant droit de preference to?
(a) Portugal.
(b) France.
(c) England.
(d) Spain.
2. How did Stanley view the local people in the Congo?
(a) Sophisticated.
(b) Artists.
(c) Available labor.
(d) Competent to rule themselves.
3. What army did Stanley enlist with during the American Civil War?
(a) French Foreign Legion.
(b) British Army.
(c) Union Army.
(d) Confederate Army.
4. At what age did Stanley get on board the ship to America?
(a) 18.
(b) 17.
(c) 15.
(d) 16.
5. What was the purpose of Leopold's establishment of international organizations to look after Africa's interests?
(a) To provide a smokescreen for his activities in Africa.
(b) To provide someone to look out for Africans.
(c) To launder money coming in and out of Africa.
(d) To provide employment for Europeans in Africa.
6. What American state was Senator John Tyler Morgan from?
(a) Alabama.
(b) Texas.
(c) Georgia.
(d) Mississippi.
7. How did many Europeans die in Congo?
(a) Disease.
(b) Accidents.
(c) Violence.
(d) Old age.
8. What year, after locating Livingstone, did Stanley return to Africa?
(a) 18743.
(b) 1875.
(c) 1877.
(d) 1876.
9. Who did Leopold want to retain political power in the Congo?
(a) White men.
(b) The Africans.
(c) Himself.
(d) The local chiefs.
10. What year was the Force Publique established?
(a) 1887.
(b) 1886.
(c) 1888.
(d) 1889.
11. When was the Berlin Conference, where Africa was divided between the Europeans, held?
(a) 1885-86.
(b) 1886-87.
(c) 1884-85.
(d) 1887-88.
12. Before being put on slave ships by the Portuguese, what religion were slaves baptized into?
(a) Catholic.
(b) Baptist.
(c) Anglican.
(d) Presbyterian
13. What year did King Leopold's control over the Congo begin?
(a) 1885.
(b) 1886.
(c) 1888.
(d) 1887.
14. When did Leopold II gain the throne of Belgium?
(a) 1855.
(b) 1865.
(c) 1835.
(d) 1845.
15. What kind of degree did Williams claim to have?
(a) No degree.
(b) A basic literature degree.
(c) A law degree.
(d) An advanced collegiate degree.
Short Answer Questions
1. How many white officers led each each garrison of Force Publique?
2. Where did Leopold get a loan from after exhausting his money?
3. What type of possession did Leopold want the Congo as?
4. Over what route did the Portuguese African slave trade flourish?
5. Who did Leopold send Stanley to rescue after the Berlin Conference?
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