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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. To prevent desertion from Force Publique, how far away were soldiers stationed from their homes?
(a) Tens of miles.
(b) A few dozen miles.
(c) A few miles.
(d) Several hundred miles.

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

3. What did Williams write about, while in the Congo?
(a) The atrocities he saw.
(b) The peaceful conditions.
(c) The horrible way the locals treated the Belgians.
(d) The good things Leopold was doing.

4. Whom did Williams abandon when he traveled to Belgium to learn more of the Congo?
(a) A wife and children.
(b) A father and his children.
(c) A wife and a mistress.
(d) A mother and wife.

5. How long did Conrad spend as a ship's officer in the British merchant marine?
(a) Five years.
(b) 10 years.
(c) Over a decade.
(d) A decade and a half.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where did Leopold get a loan from after exhausting his money?

3. What jobs did George Washington Williams hold?

4. What was the name Henry Morton Stanley was born with?

5. Modern schools traditionally interpret "Heart of Darkness" as being allegorical of what?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How did Leopold maneuver and manage Stanley?

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

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

6. Describe Joseph Conrad.

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

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

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

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

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