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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 the easiest way to gather the sap of the vines?
(a) Skin the vines.
(b) Cut the vines.
(c) Tap the vines.
(d) Trim the vines.

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

3. What is the title of Chapter 15?
(a) A Tally.
(b) The Score.
(c) A Reckoning.
(d) A Settlement.

4. What would be seized until the men of the village delivered a specific quota of sap?
(a) The women and children.
(b) The tools and food.
(c) The medicine and fuel.
(d) The animals.

5. In 1903, who passed a resolution protesting atrocities in Congo?
(a) U.S. Senate.
(b) British Parliament.
(c) German Council.
(d) Belgian Parliament.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What work did Casement do in Africa?

3. How old was Leopold when he met a teenage prostitute on one of his European voyages?

4. What nationality was the shipping firm Elder Dempster from?

5. When did the Belgian press expose Shanu as Morel's accomplice?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was E.D. Morel's conclusion, upon seeing that the trade between Belgium and the Congo was severely unbalanced?

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

3. What did the official Commission of Inquiry do?

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

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

6. What was Elder Dempster?

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

8. Why does the author discuss Leopold's fascination with Caroline?

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

10. What was the Casement Report?

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