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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Congo was rich in wild vines of the genus _________.
(a) Landolphia.
(b) Lorryaphia.
(c) Lallaphia.
(d) Lollonaphia.

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

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

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

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

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

9. What punishment would men who failed to meet their quota of vines undergo?
(a) A hand was severed.
(b) A leg was severed.
(c) An arm was severed.
(d) A foot was severed.

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

11. What work did Casement do in Africa?
(a) Research.
(b) Humanitarian.
(c) Industrial.
(d) Commercial.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Morel establish the West African Mail?

2. When was the World's Fair held in Brussels?

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

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

5. What was the probable name of the prostitute that Leopold made his mistress?

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