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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. Where was Casement sent when he was in the British consular services?

2. Hezekiah Andrew Shanu was born and educated in what is now known as which country?

3. What is the word that means someone who always thinks they are sick?

4. When the Casement Report was made public, who did Casement join with to demand action?

5. What was Dorothy Tennant's job?

Short Essay Questions

1. What sources of death are included when the author attempts to tally the death toll associated with colonialism in the Congo?

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

3. When Leopold became concerned about Morel's media attacks, what did he try to do?

4. What did Sheppard do because of his travels around the Congo?

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

6. What did the official Commission of Inquiry do?

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

8. What was Elder Dempster?

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

10. How did Leopold react to the Casement Report?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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

Essay Topic 2

Why is there a focus on so many biographies in the last few chapters?

Essay Topic 3

How did King Leopold II have two personalities? What were they? Who saw each side of his personality?

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