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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 Leopold dismiss the Casement Report as when he first heard of it?
(a) Biased.
(b) Fiction.
(c) Not the whole picture.
(d) Incorrect.

2. Whom did Leopold bribe in order to suppress information or subvert the truth?
(a) Military personnel.
(b) E.D. Morel.
(c) Politicians.
(d) British officials.

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

4. Why did Leopold purchase newspaper space?
(a) To advertise his riches.
(b) To publish articles about ivory.
(c) To publish carefully written articles.
(d) To write short stories.

5. What did Sheppard write many letters to international contacts complaining about?
(a) The abuses in the Congo.
(b) The need for more missionaries in the Congo.
(c) The conditions for white men in the Congo.
(d) The lack of money in the Congo.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who unsuccessfully bribed Morel to stop his work on the Congo?

2. For what crime was Sheppard tried for the publication of atrocities in the Congo?

3. What did Shanu recruit for in Congo?

4. What was the easiest way to gather the sap of the vines?

5. What church was William Henry Sheppard a missionary for?

Short Essay Questions

1. If the death of 50% of the population in the Congo was not genocide per se, what was it?

2. How did Leopold react to the Casement Report?

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

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

5. What happened when Leopold determined that hiring Kowalsky was a mistake?

6. What was the Casement Report?

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

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

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

10. What did the official Commission of Inquiry do?

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