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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 honorary military rank did Williams receive?

2. Whom did Williams abandon when he traveled to Belgium to learn more of the Congo?

3. How many Africans attended the Berlin Conference?

4. Over what route did the Portuguese African slave trade flourish?

5. Where was Stanley born?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is Captain Leon Rom the most likely man upon whom Conrad based the character of Kurtz?

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

3. What happened when Stanley found Dr. Livingstone?

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

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

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

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

8. What was ivory used for in Europe?

9. Why did Senator John Tyler Morgan want Leopold's claim to the Congo recognized?

10. How does Hochschild begin the book?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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

Essay Topic 2

Why was George Williams called the "first heretic?" Is this an accurate title for him? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 3

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

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