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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did the official Commission of Inquiry report validate?
(a) Congo's independence.
(b) Leopold's public statements.
(c) Colonization.
(d) Morel's publications.

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

3. When was the first comprehensive census of the Congo performed?
(a) 1928.
(b) 1930.
(c) 1922.
(d) 1924.

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

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

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

7. What is the name for the piece of paper that shows what freight a ship is carrying?
(a) Receipt.
(b) Dock sheet.
(c) Loading summary.
(d) Manifest.

8. When Leopold was in his 70s, what did he do to cause outrage in Belgium?
(a) Retain Caroline and her sister as his mistresses.
(b) Retain Caroline as his mistress.
(c) Retain Caroline as his wife.
(d) Divorce his wife to marry Caroline.

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

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

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

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

13. When did Sheppard travel to Africa?
(a) 1892.
(b) 1893.
(c) 1894.
(d) 1895.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Morel begin publishing articles?

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

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

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

5. Who is Dorothy Tennant?

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