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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 is the protagonist in "Heart of Darkness"?

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

3. At what age did Williams tour the Congo?

4. Where was Stanley born?

5. Where did the Portuguese transport the slaves?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What were some of the technological advances that led Leopold's agents to establish dominance in the Congo?

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How was Conrad's novel, "The Heart of Darkness," based in fact? How was it autobiographical?

Essay Topic 2

What were the reasons King Leopold II did not outright colonize the Congo? How did this affect his decisions in Europe?

Essay Topic 3

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

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