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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the easiest way to gather the sap of the vines?
(a) Tap the vines.
(b) Cut the vines.
(c) Trim the vines.
(d) Skin the vines.

2. What was Dorothy Tennant's job?
(a) Painter.
(b) Art restorer.
(c) Sculptor.
(d) Sketch artist.

3. What did Elder Dempster have exclusive contracts with Leopold to do?
(a) Carry slaves to Belgium.
(b) Carry people between Congo and Belgium.
(c) Carry cargo between Congo and Belgium.
(d) Carry slaves from Congo to anywhere.

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

5. When Morel began to crusade against the atrocities in the Congo and Africa, he became the center of what?
(a) Humanitarian publishing.
(b) Humanitarian donations.
(c) Humanitarian need organizations.
(d) Humanitarian missionaries.

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

7. What did E.D. Morel realize the only thing exported to the Congo was?
(a) Firearms and medicine.
(b) Whips and chains.
(c) Firearms and ammunition.
(d) Books and paper.

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

9. In 1903, who passed a resolution protesting atrocities in Congo?
(a) Belgian Parliament.
(b) U.S. Senate.
(c) German Council.
(d) British Parliament.

10. What is the main disease cited in Chapter 15 as a major cause of death?
(a) Mumps.
(b) Measles.
(c) Chicken pox.
(d) Smallpox.

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

12. Leopold put on a lavish display about Congo at the World's Fair and suggest it was what?
(a) A paradise.
(b) A sad and poor country.
(c) A place of sin, needing missionaries.
(d) A poor place, being helped by Leopold.

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

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

15. When did Morel resign, under pressure, from Elder Dempster?
(a) 1903.
(b) 1905.
(c) 1904.
(d) 1902.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Casement go to the Congo to make an evaluation of the atrocities?

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

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

4. For what crime was Sheppard tried for the publication of atrocities in the Congo?

5. Leopold became wealthy off the resources in the Congo and built multiple what?

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