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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How old was Leopold when he met a teenage prostitute on one of his European voyages?
(a) 62.
(b) 60.
(c) 65.
(d) 63.

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

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

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

6. When did Casement produce the Casement Report?
(a) 1907.
(b) 1905.
(c) 1906.
(d) 1904.

7. What span of years does Chapter 15 attempt to reconcile the death toll from?
(a) 1880 to 1913.
(b) 1880 to 1920.
(c) 1880 to 1918.
(d) 1880 to 1925.

8. What profession did Henry I. Kowalsky practice?
(a) Doctor.
(b) Publisher.
(c) Editor.
(d) Lawyer.

9. How did Shanu die?
(a) On the high seas.
(b) Car accident.
(c) Suicide.
(d) Murder.

10. What is the word used to describe someone who is afraid of germs?
(a) Germgather.
(b) Germafear.
(c) Germmander.
(d) Germophobe.

11. When did Casement go to the Congo to make an evaluation of the atrocities?
(a) 1905.
(b) 1906.
(c) 1903.
(d) 1904.

12. What place in the Congo was Sheppard the first non-native to travel to?
(a) Kuba capital.
(b) Kuba city.
(c) Kuba ritual grounds.
(d) Kuba hospital.

13. Who is Dorothy Tennant?
(a) Stanley's wife.
(b) Stanley's daughter.
(c) Stanley's mistress.
(d) Stanley's mother.

14. Who unsuccessfully bribed Morel to stop his work on the Congo?
(a) Stanley.
(b) His boss.
(c) Elder Dempster.
(d) Leopold.

15. What did Shanu receive when he went to Belgium in 1894?
(a) Public honors.
(b) Public hatred.
(c) A letter from King Leopold.
(d) A statue.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Dorothy Tennant's job?

2. Where did Shanu move when he moved to Congo?

3. What is the main disease cited in Chapter 15 as a major cause of death?

4. What job did E.D. Morel work at with Elder Dempster?

5. What was Sheppard's name among the natives in the Congo?

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