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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 Morel began to crusade against the atrocities in the Congo and Africa, he became the center of what?
(a) Humanitarian publishing.
(b) Humanitarian donations.
(c) Humanitarian missionaries.
(d) Humanitarian need organizations.

2. When did Morel begin publishing articles?
(a) 1901.
(b) 1903.
(c) 1900.
(d) 1902.

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

4. When did Casement produce the Casement Report?
(a) 1906.
(b) 1905.
(c) 1907.
(d) 1904.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What did Leopold issue before the Commission of Inquiry report was published?

3. What did Shanu receive when he went to Belgium in 1894?

4. Why did Leopold purchase newspaper space?

5. What was the relationship between the summary of the report Leopold had published and the official Commission of Inquiry report?

Short Essay Questions

1. When Leopold became concerned about Morel's media attacks, what did he try to do?

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

3. What was Elder Dempster?

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

5. What did the official Commission of Inquiry do?

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

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

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

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

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

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