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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. By who was the official Commission of Inquiry staffed?
(a) Three independent inspectors.
(b) Three lawyers.
(c) Three British citizens.
(d) Three cronies of Leopold.

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

3. What profession did Henry I. Kowalsky practice?
(a) Doctor.
(b) Editor.
(c) Publisher.
(d) Lawyer.

4. What job did E.D. Morel work at with Elder Dempster?
(a) Freight manager.
(b) Ship captain.
(c) Clerk.
(d) Dock hand.

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

6. When was the World's Fair held in Brussels?
(a) 1897.
(b) 1892.
(c) 1895.
(d) 1899.

7. 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) There was little resemblance between the two.
(c) The two were similar, but not identical.
(d) The two were identical.

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

9. What kind of report did Leopold expect from the Commission of Inquiry?
(a) A whitewashed report.
(b) A favorable report.
(c) A detailed report.
(d) An honest report.

10. When did the Belgian press expose Shanu as Morel's accomplice?
(a) Late 1905.
(b) Mid 1905.
(c) July, 1905.
(d) Early 1905.

11. Leopold put on a lavish display about Congo at the World's Fair and suggest it was what?
(a) A place of sin, needing missionaries.
(b) A poor place, being helped by Leopold.
(c) A sad and poor country.
(d) A paradise.

12. What did coagulated sap from the wild vines in the Congo form the basis of?
(a) Sugar.
(b) Metals.
(c) Antibiotics.
(d) Rubber.

13. When did Sheppard travel to Africa?
(a) 1895.
(b) 1893.
(c) 1892.
(d) 1894.

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

15. Why did Leopold purchase newspaper space?
(a) To publish articles about ivory.
(b) To write short stories.
(c) To advertise his riches.
(d) To publish carefully written articles.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whom did Leopold bribe in order to suppress information or subvert the truth?

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

3. Where did Shanu move when he moved to Congo?

4. What is the main disease cited in Chapter 15 as a major cause of death?

5. What was Dorothy Tennant's job?

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