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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was Casement, in his youth?
(a) British nationalist.
(b) Celtic nationalist.
(c) Irish nationalist.
(d) Scottish nationalist.

2. Based on what he observed, what did E.D. Morel decide that Belgium's trade with the Congo was?
(a) Fair.
(b) Equal.
(c) Severely shortened.
(d) Unbalanced.

3. What church was William Henry Sheppard a missionary for?
(a) Anglican.
(b) Presbyterian.
(c) Catholic.
(d) Baptist.

4. What is the word that means someone who always thinks they are sick?
(a) Healthachondriac.
(b) Hypochondriac.
(c) Huntachondriac.
(d) Hippochondriac.

5. When did Morel begin publishing articles?
(a) 1901.
(b) 1903.
(c) 1902.
(d) 1900.

6. What is the title of Chapter 15?
(a) The Score.
(b) A Reckoning.
(c) A Tally.
(d) A Settlement.

7. Why did Leopold purchase newspaper space?
(a) To publish articles about ivory.
(b) To write short stories.
(c) To publish carefully written articles.
(d) To advertise his riches.

8. What was the West African Mail?
(a) Illustrated weekly newspaper.
(b) Illustrated weekly newsletter.
(c) Illustrated weekly postcard.
(d) Illustrated weekly magazine.

9. Hezekiah Andrew Shanu was born and educated in what is now known as which country?
(a) Niger.
(b) Sudan.
(c) Egypt.
(d) Nigeria.

10. What does Leopold purchase several magazines and newspapers to control?
(a) Their news.
(b) Their advertising.
(c) Their circulation.
(d) Their content.

11. What was the probable name of the prostitute that Leopold made his mistress?
(a) Cassandra.
(b) Carrie Ann.
(c) Catherine.
(d) Caroline.

12. Where did Casement travel, after Congo, to document abuses against the natives?
(a) Peru.
(b) Brazil.
(c) Colombia.
(d) Argentina.

13. What did Leopold dismiss the Casement Report as when he first heard of it?
(a) Fiction.
(b) Biased.
(c) Not the whole picture.
(d) Incorrect.

14. Where did Shanu move when he moved to Congo?
(a) Groma.
(b) Forma.
(c) Boma.
(d) Toma.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In 1903, who passed a resolution protesting atrocities in Congo?

2. What span of years does Chapter 15 attempt to reconcile the death toll from?

3. What did E.D. Morel determine was the only explanation for what he was seeing on the docks?

4. How did Shanu die?

5. When Leopold fired Kowalsky, whom did Kowalsky turn over masses of damning documents to?

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