View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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.

3. What type of possession did Leopold want the Congo as?
(a) Human possession.
(b) Colonial possession.
(c) Resource possession.
(d) Power possession.

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

5. Who was the chancellor of Germany when Leopold wanted the foreign powers to recognize his colony?
(a) Vichmart.
(b) Bismarck.
(c) Scholinder.
(d) Harbringer.

6. How did many Europeans die in Congo?
(a) Disease.
(b) Violence.
(c) Accidents.
(d) Old age.

7. What honorary military rank did Williams receive?
(a) Lieutenant Colonel.
(b) Lieutenant General.
(c) General.
(d) Colonel.

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

9. When did Leopold II gain the throne of Belgium?
(a) 1835.
(b) 1845.
(c) 1855.
(d) 1865.

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

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

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

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

14. What was the name of the colony that the Congo was annexed to Belgium as in 1908?
(a) Congo Free State.
(b) Free Congo.
(c) Belgian Congo.
(d) Republic of Congo.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year did Stanley locate Livingstone?

2. Where did the Portuguese transport the slaves?

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

4. When Stanley was paroled as a prisoner during the American Civil War, what did he promptly do after being paroled?

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

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 355 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample