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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 kinds of boats were used on the Congo River above the cataracts?

2. By what year had Williams toured the Congo?

3. Leopold was described as pencil thin and possessing a large what?

4. What position did Henry Shelton Sanford hold?

5. What was one of the ways Leopold managed Stanley?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was the purpose of the Berlin Conference?

2. Why did President Arthur recognize Leopold's claim to the Congo?

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

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

5. What did Stanley pretend to be once he was a celebrity?

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

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

8. Why did Stanley agree to enter into business dealings with King Leopold?

9. Describe Joseph Conrad.

10. What happened when Stanley found Dr. Livingstone?

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

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

Essay Topic 3

How is Rudyard Kipling's quote, "Where there aren't no 10 Commandments, an' a man can raise a thirst," an accurate description of the Congo under King Leopold II?

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