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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. What year, after locating Livingstone, did Stanley return to Africa?
(a) 1877.
(b) 18743.
(c) 1876.
(d) 1875.

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

3. In what year did Stanley locate Livingstone?
(a) 1870.
(b) 1871.
(c) 1869.
(d) 1868.

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

5. When Stanley got to America, what did he do?
(a) Deserted the ship.
(b) Paid for his passage.
(c) Became captain of the ship.
(d) Snuck off the ship.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many black soldiers were in each garrison of Force Publique?

2. What American state was Senator John Tyler Morgan from?

3. What job did Conrad have in 1980 on the Congo River?

4. Who is the protagonist in "Heart of Darkness"?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What happened to the Congo Free State in 1908?

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

3. What military did George Washington Williams have after the American Civil War?

4. What did Stanley pretend to be once he was a celebrity?

5. What did Leopold use his personal control to do to the Congo?

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

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

8. What happened when Stanley found Dr. Livingstone?

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

10. What did the treaties Stanley negotiated with the local chiefs trade for brightly colored cloth?

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