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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. When was the World's Fair held in Brussels?
(a) 1897.
(b) 1899.
(c) 1892.
(d) 1895.

2. What did Shanu receive when he went to Belgium in 1894?
(a) Public hatred.
(b) A letter from King Leopold.
(c) Public honors.
(d) A statue.

3. When did the Belgian press expose Shanu as Morel's accomplice?
(a) Late 1905.
(b) Mid 1905.
(c) Early 1905.
(d) July, 1905.

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

5. What was Dorothy Tennant's job?
(a) Art restorer.
(b) Sketch artist.
(c) Painter.
(d) Sculptor.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What is the word that means someone who always thinks they are sick?

4. Based on what he observed, what did E.D. Morel decide that Belgium's trade with the Congo was?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What did Morel do after quitting his job with Elder Dempster?

3. What was the Casement Report?

4. What did Shanu do after he became disillusioned with Leopold's regime in the Congo?

5. What was Elder Dempster?

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

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

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

9. What sources of death are included when the author attempts to tally the death toll associated with colonialism in the Congo?

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

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