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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 was Sheppard's name among the natives in the Congo?

2. What job did E.D. Morel work at with Elder Dempster?

3. What did Sheppard's native Congo name mean?

4. Leopold put on a lavish display about Congo at the World's Fair and suggest it was what?

5. Who did Leopold negotiate with when he decided to sell Congo?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How did Leopold react to the Casement Report?

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

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

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

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

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

9. Why does the author discuss Leopold's fascination with Caroline?

10. What did the official Commission of Inquiry do?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

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

Essay Topic 3

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?

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