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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. At what age did Williams tour the Congo?

2. What country did Leopold grant droit de preference to?

3. When was the Berlin Conference, where Africa was divided between the Europeans, held?

4. How many Africans attended the Berlin Conference?

5. How did Queen Victoria feel about Leopold?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What was ivory used for in Europe?

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

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

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

7. What did Leopold use his personal control to do to the Congo?

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

9. What was the purpose of the Berlin Conference?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Why does the Congo's situation not change after King Leopold II sold it to Belgium? What does that say about the interest of the international community in Congo?

Essay Topic 2

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

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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