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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was Joseph Conrad born?

2. What did Williams write about, while in the Congo?

3. What year did King Leopold's control over the Congo begin?

4. When Williams left the Congo, where did he go?

5. Where did Stanley go after the Berlin Conference?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did George Washington Williams present himself that was false?

2. What happened when Stanley found Dr. Livingstone?

3. Why did John Rowlands adopt the last name Stanley?

4. What happened to the Europeans on Stanley's expedition in 1874?

5. Describe Joseph Conrad.

6. Who is the protagonist in "Heart of Darkness"? What is his job?

7. Why did Leopold embark on a plan to gain the Congo as a colonial possession?

8. What did the treaties Stanley negotiated with the local chiefs trade for brightly colored cloth?

9. What was the purpose of the Berlin Conference?

10. What happened to the Congo Free State in 1908?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Who was Morel? How did he turn the tide for the Congo?

Essay Topic 2

How were the abuses and atrocities in the Congo brought to international attention? Who was involved and how did they succeed? Why did more people not complain?

Essay Topic 3

What is the purpose of Part I? Why would the chapters in Part I be grouped together?

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