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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. When was the Berlin Conference, where Africa was divided between the Europeans, held?
(a) 1885-86.
(b) 1886-87.
(c) 1887-88.
(d) 1884-85.

2. Where was Joseph Conrad born?
(a) Poland.
(b) Germany.
(c) Finland.
(d) Slovakia.

3. Where did Leopold get a loan from after exhausting his money?
(a) France.
(b) Belgium.
(c) England.
(d) America.

4. What jobs did George Washington Williams hold?
(a) Minister and historian.
(b) Minister and doctor.
(c) Minister and publisher.
(d) Minister and politician.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did one of Stanley's sick employees compare Stanley to a few weeks before dying?

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

3. When Stanley got to America, what did he do?

4. Who did Leopold want to retain political power in the Congo?

5. What country did Leopold's sister and her husband fail to rule?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Joseph Conrad.

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

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

4. What happened to the young white bachelors who entered into the Congo service?

5. What happened to the Europeans on Stanley's expedition in 1874?

6. Why did Senator John Tyler Morgan want Leopold's claim to the Congo recognized?

7. How did George Washington Williams present himself that was false?

8. When did things change in the Congo?

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

10. Why did Leopold embark on a plan to gain the Congo as a colonial possession?

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