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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. What is the name of the publisher that Stanley became involved with?

2. What was the name of the Portuguese explorer who sailed along the west coast of Africa in the 1480s?

3. Who is the protagonist in "Heart of Darkness"?

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

5. When was Henry Morton Stanley born?

Short Essay Questions

1. What military did George Washington Williams have after the American Civil War?

2. Describe Joseph Conrad.

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

4. What happened to the young white bachelors who entered into the Congo service?

5. Why was Leopold easily able to discredit Williams' reports of atrocities in the Congo?

6. What was the purpose of the Berlin Conference?

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

8. How does Hochschild begin the book?

9. What did Leopold do when the venture in the Congo consumed all his funds?

10. What did the international organizations Leopold established and then dissolved do?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What is genocide? How did Stanley's actions construct the underpinnings of genocide?

Essay Topic 2

Who was Henry M. Stanley? What was his importance to King Leopold II?

Essay Topic 3

Why is there a focus on so many biographies in the last few chapters?

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