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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 percentage was the population of Congo reduced by as cited by the author during the period covered in Chapter 15?
(a) 30%.
(b) 45%.
(c) 50%.
(d) 75%.

2. What kind of report did Leopold expect from the Commission of Inquiry?
(a) A detailed report.
(b) A whitewashed report.
(c) A favorable report.
(d) An honest report.

3. What did coagulated sap from the wild vines in the Congo form the basis of?
(a) Sugar.
(b) Rubber.
(c) Antibiotics.
(d) Metals.

4. When was the first comprehensive census of the Congo performed?
(a) 1928.
(b) 1924.
(c) 1930.
(d) 1922.

5. What is the word that means someone who always thinks they are sick?
(a) Healthachondriac.
(b) Huntachondriac.
(c) Hypochondriac.
(d) Hippochondriac.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Morel resign, under pressure, from Elder Dempster?

2. What was the relationship between the summary of the report Leopold had published and the official Commission of Inquiry report?

3. What did E.D. Morel determine was the only explanation for what he was seeing on the docks?

4. What did Leopold issue before the Commission of Inquiry report was published?

5. What was the easiest way to gather the sap of the vines?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Casement's voyage through the Congo.

2. What did the official Commission of Inquiry do?

3. What did the British Parliament decide to do after passing a resolution protesting the atrocities in the Congo?

4. What did Sheppard do because of his travels around the Congo?

5. What did Leopold do when he determined the situation with the international community and the Congo to be untenable?

6. What did Stanley do after he gave up adventuring?

7. What happened when Leopold determined that hiring Kowalsky was a mistake?

8. If the death of 50% of the population in the Congo was not genocide per se, what was it?

9. What was E.D. Morel's conclusion, upon seeing that the trade between Belgium and the Congo was severely unbalanced?

10. What were some of the ways Leopold responded to his critics?

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