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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) 1892.
(b) 1897.
(c) 1899.
(d) 1895.

2. What job did E.D. Morel work at with Elder Dempster?
(a) Ship captain.
(b) Clerk.
(c) Freight manager.
(d) Dock hand.

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

4. What is the main disease cited in Chapter 15 as a major cause of death?
(a) Mumps.
(b) Measles.
(c) Smallpox.
(d) Chicken pox.

5. What is the name for the piece of paper that shows what freight a ship is carrying?
(a) Manifest.
(b) Loading summary.
(c) Dock sheet.
(d) Receipt.

Short Answer Questions

1. How were the roads and railroads in Congo completed and improved?

2. What is the word used to describe someone who is afraid of germs?

3. When Morel began to crusade against the atrocities in the Congo and Africa, he became the center of what?

4. When did Sheppard travel to Africa?

5. How many official depositions did the Commission of Inquiry members take?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. What did Leopold do when he realized he could not suppress the Commission of Inquiry report?

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

8. What caused the official pressure on Leopold from the international front?

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

10. Describe Casement's voyage through the Congo.

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