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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 nationality was the shipping firm Elder Dempster from?
(a) French.
(b) British.
(c) Portuguese.
(d) Spanish.

2. When did Morel establish the West African Mail?
(a) 1906.
(b) 1905.
(c) 1904.
(d) 1903.

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

4. Leopold put on a lavish display about Congo at the World's Fair and suggest it was what?
(a) A sad and poor country.
(b) A paradise.
(c) A place of sin, needing missionaries.
(d) A poor place, being helped by Leopold.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Leopold became wealthy off the resources in the Congo and built multiple what?

2. What place in the Congo was Sheppard the first non-native to travel to?

3. Hezekiah Andrew Shanu was born and educated in what is now known as which country?

4. What did Elder Dempster have exclusive contracts with Leopold to do?

5. What punishment would men who failed to meet their quota of vines undergo?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Leopold promote his image of a kindly humanitarian throughout Europe?

2. When Leopold became concerned about Morel's media attacks, what did he try to do?

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

4. What happened if the men of the village took too long to fulfill their quota of rubber demanded of them?

5. What is the implication of Morel's epiphany at the end of Part I?

6. How did the natives of the Congo get the rubber from the vines?

7. Why does the author discuss Leopold's fascination with Caroline?

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

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

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

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