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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. Who did Leopold send Stanley to rescue after the Berlin Conference?

2. What type of possession did Leopold want the Congo as?

3. Who did Leopold want to retain political power in the Congo?

4. How did many Europeans die in Congo?

5. Stanley's bizarre route took so long to traverse, that when he arrived to rescue Pasha, what happened?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. When did things change in the Congo?

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

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

6. What was ivory used for in Europe?

7. What happened to the Africans that other Africans captured and took to the coastal towns?

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

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

10. Why did Leopold want the soldiers in one area to be of a different cultural unit than the subjects in that area?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Who is Rom? What does he symbolize for the Congo?

Essay Topic 2

Who influenced the American government to support King Leopold II's claim to the Congo? Why did America support the request?

Essay Topic 3

The book ends with a summary of Congo's independence movement and current conditions. How does the history of the Congo influence these events?

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