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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Senator Morgan wanted the Congo to be a colony in order for newly freed slaves to be what?
(a) Have contact with their families.
(b) Discover their heritage.
(c) Given the option of returning to Africa.
(d) Forcibly repatriated to Africa.

2. When did Leopold II gain the throne of Belgium?
(a) 1845.
(b) 1835.
(c) 1865.
(d) 1855.

3. What did one of Stanley's sick employees compare Stanley to a few weeks before dying?
(a) A blacksmith.
(b) A slavedriver.
(c) A boat captain.
(d) A lawyer.

4. By what year had Williams toured the Congo?
(a) 1885.
(b) 1890.
(c) 1887.
(d) 1892.

5. Where did Leopold send Gerson Bleichröd?
(a) Finland.
(b) Poland.
(c) Switzerland.
(d) Germany.

Short Answer Questions

1. By what year were most of the coastal areas of Africa claimed as colonies by various European powers?

2. Who did Leopold send Stanley to rescue after the Berlin Conference?

3. When was Henry Morton Stanley born?

4. Stanley's bizarre route took so long to traverse, that when he arrived to rescue Pasha, what happened?

5. Where was Stanley born?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is the protagonist in "Heart of Darkness"? What is his job?

2. How does Hochschild begin the book?

3. Why is Captain Leon Rom the most likely man upon whom Conrad based the character of Kurtz?

4. What did Leopold do when the venture in the Congo consumed all his funds?

5. Why did President Arthur recognize Leopold's claim to the Congo?

6. Why did Stanley agree to enter into business dealings with King Leopold?

7. How did Leopold maneuver and manage Stanley?

8. What did the international organizations Leopold established and then dissolved do?

9. What were some of the technological advances that led Leopold's agents to establish dominance in the Congo?

10. What happened to the Africans that other Africans captured and took to the coastal towns?

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