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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 18 and 19.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How long was the road that Stanley built from the coast to the top of Congo River falls?
(a) 235 miles.
(b) 225 miles.
(c) 230 miles.
(d) 220 miles.

2. When did Leopold II gain the throne of Belgium?
(a) 1865.
(b) 1835.
(c) 1845.
(d) 1855.

3. What year did King Leopold's control over the Congo begin?
(a) 1887.
(b) 1888.
(c) 1885.
(d) 1886.

4. Where did Leopold send Henry Shelton Sanford?
(a) America.
(b) England.
(c) Berlin.
(d) France.

5. Where did Casement travel, after Congo, to document abuses against the natives?
(a) Colombia.
(b) Argentina.
(c) Peru.
(d) Brazil.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of ivory did Stanley transport out of the Congo?

2. Why did Conrad have to leave the Congo and return to England?

3. What language were the treaties with the African chiefs written in?

4. Who did Leopold send Stanley to rescue after the Berlin Conference?

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

(see the answer key)

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