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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. For what crime was Sheppard tried for the publication of atrocities in the Congo?
(a) Treason.
(b) Slander.
(c) Free-speech.
(d) Libel.

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

4. What did E.D. Morel realize the only thing exported to the Congo was?
(a) Books and paper.
(b) Firearms and ammunition.
(c) Whips and chains.
(d) Firearms and medicine.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What nationality was the shipping firm Elder Dempster from?

2. What percentage was the population of Congo reduced by as cited by the author during the period covered in Chapter 15?

3. What was the relationship between the summary of the report Leopold had published and the official Commission of Inquiry report?

4. What is the title of Chapter 15?

5. Leopold became wealthy off the resources in the Congo and built multiple what?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. If the death of 50% of the population in the Congo was not genocide per se, what was it?

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

8. How did the natives of the Congo get the rubber from the vines?

9. What did Shanu do after he became disillusioned with Leopold's regime in the Congo?

10. What did Sheppard do because of his travels around the Congo?

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