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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of the fanatical madman in "Heart of Darkness"?
(a) Kallon.
(b) Kurtz.
(c) Kelvin.
(d) Kensington.

2. How many Africans attended the Berlin Conference?
(a) A lot.
(b) As many as could get there.
(c) A few.
(d) None.

3. What was the purpose of Leopold's establishment of international organizations to look after Africa's interests?
(a) To launder money coming in and out of Africa.
(b) To provide a smokescreen for his activities in Africa.
(c) To provide someone to look out for Africans.
(d) To provide employment for Europeans in Africa.

4. What was one of the ways Leopold managed Stanley?
(a) Land grants.
(b) Public praise.
(c) Threats.
(d) Letters.

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

6. Where did the Portuguese transport the slaves?
(a) England.
(b) Asia.
(c) Portugal.
(d) The New World.

7. Where did Stanley become a celebrity for being the first European to explore Africa's interior?
(a) England.
(b) Germany.
(c) Prussia.
(d) France.

8. How did Stanley view the local people in the Congo?
(a) Sophisticated.
(b) Artists.
(c) Available labor.
(d) Competent to rule themselves.

9. A Portuguese explorer was the first European to discover the mouth of which river?
(a) Ivory.
(b) Nile.
(c) Sentara.
(d) Congo.

10. What kind of ivory did Stanley transport out of the Congo?
(a) Balls of ivory.
(b) Processed ivory.
(c) Ivory rocks.
(d) Elephant tusks.

11. Where did Leopold send Gerson Bleichröd?
(a) Poland.
(b) Germany.
(c) Finland.
(d) Switzerland.

12. Why did most European colonizers focus on Africa's coastal areas?
(a) The coast was cheaper to colonize.
(b) The local people were friendlier.
(c) They were immediately accessible.
(d) They had more riches.

13. When Stanley left Zanzibar, what did he traverse?
(a) The desert.
(b) The Congo River.
(c) The Great Divide.
(d) The Nile.

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

15. Where was Stanley born?
(a) Edinburough.
(b) Wales.
(c) London.
(d) Scotland.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Leopold issue the royal decree that declared his colony the Congo Free State?

2. When Williams left the Congo, where did he go?

3. When Stanley got to America, what did he do?

4. What language were the treaties with the African chiefs written in?

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

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