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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did the first comprehensive census of the Congo determine the national population to be?
(a) 13 million.
(b) 11 million.
(c) 10 million.
(d) 9 million.

2. What did Leopold issue before the Commission of Inquiry report was published?
(a) A supporting statement.
(b) A summary.
(c) A denial.
(d) An editorial.

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

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

5. When Leopold fired Kowalsky, whom did Kowalsky turn over masses of damning documents to?
(a) Morel.
(b) The newspaper editors.
(c) The Belgian Prime Minister.
(d) Caroline.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

14. When did Morel establish the West African Mail?
(a) 1904.
(b) 1903.
(c) 1905.
(d) 1906.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What was the West African Mail?

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

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

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