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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. Where did the Portuguese transport the slaves?
(a) England.
(b) The New World.
(c) Portugal.
(d) Asia.
2. In what year did Stanley locate Livingstone?
(a) 1871.
(b) 1870.
(c) 1868.
(d) 1869.
3. Where did Leopold send Henry Shelton Sanford?
(a) America.
(b) Berlin.
(c) England.
(d) France.
4. How did Stanley view the local people in the Congo?
(a) Competent to rule themselves.
(b) Available labor.
(c) Sophisticated.
(d) Artists.
5. What kind of rifles allowed Leopold's agents in the Congo to establish dominance?
(a) Large caliber rifles.
(b) Side-winding rifles.
(c) Boar-shot rifles.
(d) Breech-loading rifles.
Short Answer Questions
1. To prevent desertion from Force Publique, how far away were soldiers stationed from their homes?
2. When was the Berlin Conference, where Africa was divided between the Europeans, held?
3. What country did Leopold's sister and her husband fail to rule?
4. What year did King Leopold's control over the Congo begin?
5. What was one of the ways Leopold managed Stanley?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why did Senator John Tyler Morgan want Leopold's claim to the Congo recognized?
2. What happened to the Congo Free State in 1908?
3. What did the treaties Stanley negotiated with the local chiefs trade for brightly colored cloth?
4. What did Stanley pretend to be once he was a celebrity?
5. What happened to the Africans that other Africans captured and took to the coastal towns?
6. Why is Captain Leon Rom the most likely man upon whom Conrad based the character of Kurtz?
7. Why did Leopold want the soldiers in one area to be of a different cultural unit than the subjects in that area?
8. How did Leopold maneuver and manage Stanley?
9. Who is the protagonist in "Heart of Darkness"? What is his job?
10. What was the purpose of the Berlin Conference?
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