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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What military title did Henry I. Kowalsky affect?
(a) Lieutenant.
(b) Major.
(c) Colonel.
(d) General.

2. Where did Shanu move when he moved to Congo?
(a) Toma.
(b) Groma.
(c) Forma.
(d) Boma.

3. What was the West African Mail?
(a) Illustrated weekly newsletter.
(b) Illustrated weekly postcard.
(c) Illustrated weekly newspaper.
(d) Illustrated weekly magazine.

4. When Leopold was in his 70s, what did he do to cause outrage in Belgium?
(a) Retain Caroline as his wife.
(b) Divorce his wife to marry Caroline.
(c) Retain Caroline and her sister as his mistresses.
(d) Retain Caroline as his mistress.

5. How were the roads and railroads in Congo completed and improved?
(a) Slave labor.
(b) Missionary money.
(c) Leopold's investment.
(d) Foreign investment.

6. What did Sheppard's native Congo name mean?
(a) The black helpful man.
(b) The black Englishman.
(c) The scary black man.
(d) The black white man.

7. What is the word that means someone who always thinks they are sick?
(a) Hypochondriac.
(b) Hippochondriac.
(c) Huntachondriac.
(d) Healthachondriac.

8. How did Shanu die?
(a) Car accident.
(b) Murder.
(c) Suicide.
(d) On the high seas.

9. What does Leopold purchase several magazines and newspapers to control?
(a) Their circulation.
(b) Their news.
(c) Their advertising.
(d) Their content.

10. Congo was rich in wild vines of the genus _________.
(a) Landolphia.
(b) Lollonaphia.
(c) Lallaphia.
(d) Lorryaphia.

11. What did Sheppard write many letters to international contacts complaining about?
(a) The conditions for white men in the Congo.
(b) The abuses in the Congo.
(c) The lack of money in the Congo.
(d) The need for more missionaries in the Congo.

12. What was Dorothy Tennant's job?
(a) Art restorer.
(b) Sketch artist.
(c) Sculptor.
(d) Painter.

13. What is the title of Chapter 15?
(a) The Score.
(b) A Tally.
(c) A Reckoning.
(d) A Settlement.

14. When did Morel begin publishing articles?
(a) 1900.
(b) 1901.
(c) 1902.
(d) 1903.

15. In 1903, who passed a resolution protesting atrocities in Congo?
(a) U.S. Senate.
(b) British Parliament.
(c) German Council.
(d) Belgian Parliament.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the easiest way to gather the sap of the vines?

2. What work did Casement do in Africa?

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

4. What did the first comprehensive census of the Congo determine the national population to be?

5. Who unsuccessfully bribed Morel to stop his work on the Congo?

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