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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What did E.D. Morel determine was the only explanation for what he was seeing on the docks?

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

4. What did E.D. Morel realize the only thing exported to the Congo was?

5. What did Elder Dempster have exclusive contracts with Leopold to do?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What is the implication of Morel's epiphany at the end of Part I?

4. Describe Casement's voyage through the Congo.

5. What were some of the ways Leopold responded to his critics?

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

7. What did Stanley do after he gave up adventuring?

8. What was E.D. Morel's conclusion, upon seeing that the trade between Belgium and the Congo was severely unbalanced?

9. What caused the official pressure on Leopold from the international front?

10. What did Leopold do when he realized he could not suppress the Commission of Inquiry report?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What were the reasons King Leopold II did not outright colonize the Congo? How did this affect his decisions in Europe?

Essay Topic 2

Why does the Congo's situation not change after King Leopold II sold it to Belgium? What does that say about the interest of the international community in Congo?

Essay Topic 3

Why does the author focus on Caroline, Leopold's mistress? What does this say about Leopold's character?

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