3.
PART B: Which TWO phrases from the text best support the answer to Part A?
A. "Although the ruler of a small nation, King Leopold had deep pockets and an
obsessive desire to own an empire." (Paragraph 5)
B. "He proposed to the gathering to conduct "a crusade worthy of this age of
progress," namely, "[t]o open to civilization the only part of our globe which it
has not yet penetrated" (Paragraph 6)
C. "Leopold determined the nature of its administration, and Leopold was the
principal recipient of such profits as accrued from the undertaking." (Paragraph
9)
D. "Refusing to be left out of the suddenly widely coveted continent, in 1883 he
called an international conference to carve out Africa" (Paragraph 11)
E. "At Leopold's initiative, a British firm built a 155 mile-long narrow gauge railway
from the coast into the continent's interior." (Paragraph 14)
F. "the opening of African markets for Europe's manufactured goods added still
more incentives for colonizing the continent." (Paragraph 15)