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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Leopold issue before the Commission of Inquiry report was published?
(a) A supporting statement.
(b) A summary.
(c) A denial.
(d) An editorial.

2. What percentage was the population of Congo reduced by as cited by the author during the period covered in Chapter 15?
(a) 45%.
(b) 75%.
(c) 50%.
(d) 30%.

3. When Morel began to crusade against the atrocities in the Congo and Africa, he became the center of what?
(a) Humanitarian missionaries.
(b) Humanitarian need organizations.
(c) Humanitarian donations.
(d) Humanitarian publishing.

4. What punishment would men who failed to meet their quota of vines undergo?
(a) An arm was severed.
(b) A hand was severed.
(c) A foot was severed.
(d) A leg was severed.

5. Whom did Leopold bribe in order to suppress information or subvert the truth?
(a) Politicians.
(b) E.D. Morel.
(c) British officials.
(d) Military personnel.

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

7. What did the official Commission of Inquiry report validate?
(a) Morel's publications.
(b) Congo's independence.
(c) Leopold's public statements.
(d) Colonization.

8. Who unsuccessfully bribed Morel to stop his work on the Congo?
(a) His boss.
(b) Leopold.
(c) Elder Dempster.
(d) Stanley.

9. What did Elder Dempster have exclusive contracts with Leopold to do?
(a) Carry slaves to Belgium.
(b) Carry cargo between Congo and Belgium.
(c) Carry people between Congo and Belgium.
(d) Carry slaves from Congo to anywhere.

10. What did Leopold dismiss the Casement Report as when he first heard of it?
(a) Not the whole picture.
(b) Biased.
(c) Fiction.
(d) Incorrect.

11. What was the relationship between the summary of the report Leopold had published and the official Commission of Inquiry report?
(a) There was some similarity between the two on important points.
(b) The two were similar, but not identical.
(c) There was little resemblance between the two.
(d) The two were identical.

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

13. What was the easiest way to gather the sap of the vines?
(a) Tap the vines.
(b) Cut the vines.
(c) Skin the vines.
(d) Trim the vines.

14. What work did Casement do in Africa?
(a) Industrial.
(b) Humanitarian.
(c) Research.
(d) Commercial.

15. Hezekiah Andrew Shanu was born and educated in what is now known as which country?
(a) Egypt.
(b) Sudan.
(c) Niger.
(d) Nigeria.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Morel resign, under pressure, from Elder Dempster?

2. What was the West African Mail?

3. What was Dorothy Tennant's job?

4. Based on what he observed, what did E.D. Morel decide that Belgium's trade with the Congo was?

5. What does Leopold purchase several magazines and newspapers to control?

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