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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When the Casement Report was made public, who did Casement join with to demand action?
(a) The British Government.
(b) The Belgian public.
(c) Senator McKenna.
(d) Morel.

2. How were the roads and railroads in Congo completed and improved?
(a) Slave labor.
(b) Missionary money.
(c) Leopold's investment.
(d) Foreign investment.

3. What would be seized until the men of the village delivered a specific quota of sap?
(a) The animals.
(b) The women and children.
(c) The tools and food.
(d) The medicine and fuel.

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

5. When was the World's Fair held in Brussels?
(a) 1899.
(b) 1895.
(c) 1892.
(d) 1897.

6. When did Shanu begin working for Leopold's regime?
(a) 1887.
(b) 1885.
(c) 1884.
(d) 1886.

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

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

9. What military title did Henry I. Kowalsky affect?
(a) Colonel.
(b) Major.
(c) General.
(d) Lieutenant.

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

11. What did Sheppard's native Congo name mean?
(a) The black Englishman.
(b) The scary black man.
(c) The black white man.
(d) The black helpful man.

12. What job did E.D. Morel work at with Elder Dempster?
(a) Dock hand.
(b) Freight manager.
(c) Ship captain.
(d) Clerk.

13. Leopold became wealthy off the resources in the Congo and built multiple what?
(a) Universities.
(b) Schools.
(c) Private palaces.
(d) Churches.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Dorothy Tennant's job?

2. What does Leopold purchase several magazines and newspapers to control?

3. Who unsuccessfully bribed Morel to stop his work on the Congo?

4. What did coagulated sap from the wild vines in the Congo form the basis of?

5. What did Elder Dempster have exclusive contracts with Leopold to do?

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