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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 did Shanu recruit for in Congo?
(a) Mine workers.
(b) Riverboat crews.
(c) Rubber harvesters.
(d) Force Publique.
2. What did the official Commission of Inquiry report validate?
(a) Congo's independence.
(b) Morel's publications.
(c) Colonization.
(d) Leopold's public statements.
3. When did Casement produce the Casement Report?
(a) 1907.
(b) 1904.
(c) 1905.
(d) 1906.
4. What did Leopold issue before the Commission of Inquiry report was published?
(a) A denial.
(b) A supporting statement.
(c) A summary.
(d) An editorial.
5. Who did Leopold negotiate with when he decided to sell Congo?
(a) England.
(b) Germany.
(c) Belgium.
(d) France.
Short Answer Questions
1. What span of years does Chapter 15 attempt to reconcile the death toll from?
2. What was Dorothy Tennant's job?
3. Who unsuccessfully bribed Morel to stop his work on the Congo?
4. What is the name for the piece of paper that shows what freight a ship is carrying?
5. What place in the Congo was Sheppard the first non-native to travel to?
Short Essay Questions
1. What happened when Leopold determined that hiring Kowalsky was a mistake?
2. What did Leopold do when he determined the situation with the international community and the Congo to be untenable?
3. What sources of death are included when the author attempts to tally the death toll associated with colonialism in the Congo?
4. What caused the official pressure on Leopold from the international front?
5. How did Leopold react to the Casement Report?
6. What did the British Parliament decide to do after passing a resolution protesting the atrocities in the Congo?
7. When Leopold became concerned about Morel's media attacks, what did he try to do?
8. What is the implication of Morel's epiphany at the end of Part I?
9. What did Leopold do when he realized he could not suppress the Commission of Inquiry report?
10. Describe Casement's voyage through the Congo.
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