Which TWO phrases from the text best support the answer to Part A? King Leopold’s ideas for the resources in the Congo stem from him seeing an opportunity for personal wealth that would be wasted on the native population.
A. “Refusing to be left out of the suddenly widely coveted continent, in 1883 he called an international conference to carve out Africa” (Paragraph 11)
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.“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)
D. “‘Leopold determined the nature of its administration, and Leopold was the principal recipient of such profits as accrued from the undertaking.’” (Paragraph 9)
E. “Although the ruler of a small nation, King Leopold had deep pockets and an obsessive desire to own an empire.” (Paragraph 5)