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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 is the main disease cited in Chapter 15 as a major cause of death?

2. What did the official Commission of Inquiry report validate?

3. When did Morel begin publishing articles?

4. Where did Shanu move when he moved to Congo?

5. When did Casement go to the Congo to make an evaluation of the atrocities?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did the British Parliament decide to do after passing a resolution protesting the atrocities in the Congo?

2. If the death of 50% of the population in the Congo was not genocide per se, what was it?

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

4. How did Leopold promote his image of a kindly humanitarian throughout Europe?

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

6. What was the Casement Report?

7. What did Stanley do after he gave up adventuring?

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

9. What happened when Leopold determined that hiring Kowalsky was a mistake?

10. What did Leopold do when he determined the situation with the international community and the Congo to be untenable?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How were the abuses and atrocities in the Congo brought to international attention? Who was involved and how did they succeed? Why did more people not complain?

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

Who was Morel? How did he turn the tide for the Congo?

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