1. King Leopold’s Ghost Chapters 17-19 Discussion
Jessica Russo
October 2, 2012

2. Quiz: Question 1
In a short paragraph summarize the main points of chapters of King Leopold’s Ghost. (50 points)

3. Quiz: Question 2 Please choose 2 of the following (10 points each):
Please choose 2 of the following (10 points each):
a)What prompted Leopold to sell the Congo to Belgium? Do you think the terms of the sale were fair to Belgium? Why or Why not?
b)Leopold did the best that he could to try and erase his presence in the Congo from history. Name one way that he did this. Do you think he succeeded? Why or why not?
c)Leopold also did the best that he could to take his riches with him to the grave. Name one way that he did that. Do you feel he was successful? Why or why not?
d)Lumumba was the Congo’s first leader after it gained independence. From what you have read about Lumumba, do you think the Congo would have been better off if he was not assassinated and continued to rule? Why or why not?

4. Quiz: Question 3 Multiple Choice (10 points each):
3)Both Casement and Morel were put in jail for their reform work at one point. Which one never made it out alive?
Casement
Morel

5. Quiz: Question 4
4)Within which decade did the Congo gain independence from Belgium?
A) 1890’s
B) 1940’s
C) 1960’s

6. Quiz: Question 5
5) After WWI, colonizers found other natural resources that could be taken from the Congo. Which one of the following was a natural resource that the Congo was rich in?
Copper
Gold
Zinc
All of the above

7. Bonus Questions Bonus Questions (10 points each):
6) Hochschild referred to one of the political leaders in the Congo as Leopold’s reincarnate. What was his name?
7) There was another country which had a colony in Africa and made the native people build a roadway through forced labor as well. The construction of this roadway was said to have killed more people than the construction of Leopold’s did. Which country was it?

9. The Terms of the Agreement
110 million Francs- Debt
32 million Francs - Loan
45.5 million Francs- Projects
50 million - Leopold

10. What Changed? Campaign Du Kasai

11. DEATH http://www.collectingpapermemories.com/images/money-symbol.jpg

12. What was everyone else up to?

13. The CRA

14. World War I
“…Germany invaded in 1914, killed more than 5,000 Belgian civilians, and deliberately set fire to thousands of buildings, including the renowned university library at Louvain…The Germans, it was said, crucified Belgian babies on the doors of houses.” ( )

15. The Reformers Roger Casement William Shepard E.D. Morel Alice Harris
Roger Casement
William Shepard
E.D. Morel
Alice Harris

16. History....
Jules Marchal
“The furnaces burned for eight days, turning most of the Congo state records to ash and smoke in the sky over Brussels. ‘I will give them my Congo Leopold told Stinglhamber, ‘but they have no right to know what I did there.’” (294)
“‘The rubber this time, that was nothing. But the first time, that was terrible.’ Only thirty years later did I understand what he was talking about.”(299)

17. Jean Felix De Hemptinne
Jean Felix De Hemptinne

19. The Leaders Patrice Lumumba Joseph Mobutu
Patrice Lumumba
Joseph Mobutu

20. THE CONGO 2012

21. Discussion

22. Do you think Belgium rule in the Congo created a less hostile environment for the Congolese? Why or Why not?

23. Many other European countries as well as the United States were colonizing different parts of the developing world. Why was there so much publicity at that time about the colonization of the Congo? Were there similarities between the Congo and those colonies?

24. Casement and Morel weren’t tried until after they began fighting for peace and freedom in places other than the Congo. Why do you think that was the case?

25. Leopold did the best he could to erase his presence in the Congo from history. Do you think things would have been different for the Congo if that did not happen? Why or why not?

26. Do you think Germany’s treatment of Belgium during WWI can be compared to Belgium’s treatment of the Congo?

27. The Congo struggled after gaining independence and is still struggling today. Can we discuss the Congo in terms of the resource curse and indirect rule? Can it be considered a failed state?

28. Are there any other important issues in Chapters 17-19 that we have not discussed yet?