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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 was Sheppard's name among the natives in the Congo?
(a) Mundele Nrom.
(b) Mundele Mnom.
(c) Mundele Mtom.
(d) Mundele Ndom.

2. When did Morel resign, under pressure, from Elder Dempster?
(a) 1903.
(b) 1905.
(c) 1902.
(d) 1904.

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

4. Leopold became wealthy off the resources in the Congo and built multiple what?
(a) Private palaces.
(b) Schools.
(c) Churches.
(d) Universities.

5. How were the roads and railroads in Congo completed and improved?
(a) Slave labor.
(b) Leopold's investment.
(c) Foreign investment.
(d) Missionary money.

Short Answer Questions

1. What profession did Henry I. Kowalsky practice?

2. By who was the official Commission of Inquiry staffed?

3. When did Morel begin publishing articles?

4. What did coagulated sap from the wild vines in the Congo form the basis of?

5. What work did Casement do in Africa?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Describe Casement's voyage through the Congo.

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 did Stanley do after he gave up adventuring?

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

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

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

9. What did the official Commission of Inquiry do?

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

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