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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. When Leopold was in his 70s, what did he do to cause outrage in Belgium?

2. What did Leopold dismiss the Casement Report as when he first heard of it?

3. What did Shanu receive when he went to Belgium in 1894?

4. What did E.D. Morel realize the only thing exported to the Congo was?

5. In 1903, who passed a resolution protesting atrocities in Congo?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Leopold react to the Casement Report?

2. What did Morel do after quitting his job with Elder Dempster?

3. What did Leopold do when he realized he could not suppress the Commission of Inquiry report?

4. What was Elder Dempster?

5. What did Shanu do after he became disillusioned with Leopold's regime in the Congo?

6. What happened if the men of the village took too long to fulfill their quota of rubber demanded of them?

7. What were some of the ways Leopold responded to his critics?

8. What is the implication of Morel's epiphany at the end of Part I?

9. What caused the official pressure on Leopold from the international front?

10. What was E.D. Morel's conclusion, upon seeing that the trade between Belgium and the Congo was severely unbalanced?

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

What is the purpose of the book?

Essay Topic 3

How is the title of Part II, "A King at Bay" appropriate, or not, for the second part of the book?

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