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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What kind of rifles allowed Leopold's agents in the Congo to establish dominance?
(a) Breech-loading rifles.
(b) Side-winding rifles.
(c) Large caliber rifles.
(d) Boar-shot rifles.

2. Where did Leopold send Arthur Stevens?
(a) China.
(b) Paris.
(c) London.
(d) Russia.

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

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

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

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

7. Stanley is an adopted name for Henry. What was the occupation of the Stanley Henry met in America?
(a) Trader.
(b) Businessman.
(c) Lawyer.
(d) Doctor.

8. Why did Conrad have to leave the Congo and return to England?
(a) There was a bounty on his head.
(b) His time in the Congo ran out.
(c) He got sick.
(d) He had a sick family.

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

10. What jobs did George Washington Williams hold?
(a) Minister and publisher.
(b) Minister and politician.
(c) Minister and doctor.
(d) Minister and historian.

11. In what country was Williams commissioned a lieutenant?
(a) Puerto Rico.
(b) Guatemala.
(c) Mexico.
(d) Peru.

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

13. Whom did Williams abandon when he traveled to Belgium to learn more of the Congo?
(a) A father and his children.
(b) A mother and wife.
(c) A wife and children.
(d) A wife and a mistress.

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

15. What is the name of the publisher that Stanley became involved with?
(a) James Gordon Bennett.
(b) James Gordon Morrow.
(c) James Gordon Edison.
(d) James Gordon Madison.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What kind of ivory did Stanley transport out of the Congo?

3. Who is the protagonist in "Heart of Darkness"?

4. Leopold was described as pencil thin and possessing a large what?

5. What country did Leopold grant droit de preference to?

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