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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. Who was the chancellor of Germany when Leopold wanted the foreign powers to recognize his colony?
(a) Scholinder.
(b) Bismarck.
(c) Harbringer.
(d) Vichmart.

2. Who was President in America when Leopold began to have his colony recognized by the foreign powers?
(a) Ford.
(b) Polk.
(c) Taylor.
(d) Arthur.

3. Where did Stanley go after the Berlin Conference?
(a) Russia.
(b) Africa.
(c) Far East.
(d) Middle East.

4. Who is the protagonist in "Heart of Darkness"?
(a) Mellonton.
(b) Madison.
(c) Marlow.
(d) Mellville.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the purpose of Leopold's establishment of international organizations to look after Africa's interests?

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

3. Who was Henry Stanley's mother?

4. Why did most European colonizers focus on Africa's coastal areas?

5. What was the name of the Portuguese explorer who sailed along the west coast of Africa in the 1480s?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did Leopold want the soldiers in one area to be of a different cultural unit than the subjects in that area?

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

3. When did things change in the Congo?

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

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

6. Describe Joseph Conrad.

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

8. What was the purpose of the Berlin Conference?

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

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

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