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From the Ted Talk by Georges Nzongola-Ntalaja: History's deadliest king

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Congolese people rebelled— they refused to cooperate, fought Leopold’s soldiers, hid in the forests, and destroyed rubber vines. Leopold’s army rosdepend to resistance or failure to meet quoats with ufnihniclng torture and executions. Because guns and aimotmniun were expensive, officers ordered soldiers to prove they used their bullets in the line of duty by removing a hand from anyone they killed. However, many sdorelis hneutd using their guns. To aovid hrash penalties and account for lost bullets, they cut off living people’s hands. They also used this practice as punishment. If rubber quotas weren’t met, soldiers would sever people’s hands and bring them to their commanders instead of rubber.

Open Cloze


Congolese people rebelled— they refused to cooperate, fought Leopold’s soldiers, hid in the forests, and destroyed rubber vines. Leopold’s army _________ to resistance or failure to meet ______ with ___________ torture and executions. Because guns and __________ were expensive, officers ordered soldiers to prove they used their bullets in the line of duty by removing a hand from anyone they killed. However, many ________ ______ using their guns. To _____ _____ penalties and account for lost bullets, they cut off living people’s hands. They also used this practice as punishment. If rubber quotas weren’t met, soldiers would sever people’s hands and bring them to their commanders instead of rubber.

Solution


  1. quotas
  2. soldiers
  3. unflinching
  4. responded
  5. ammunition
  6. avoid
  7. hunted
  8. harsh

Original Text


Congolese people rebelled— they refused to cooperate, fought Leopold’s soldiers, hid in the forests, and destroyed rubber vines. Leopold’s army responded to resistance or failure to meet quotas with unflinching torture and executions. Because guns and ammunition were expensive, officers ordered soldiers to prove they used their bullets in the line of duty by removing a hand from anyone they killed. However, many soldiers hunted using their guns. To avoid harsh penalties and account for lost bullets, they cut off living people’s hands. They also used this practice as punishment. If rubber quotas weren’t met, soldiers would sever people’s hands and bring them to their commanders instead of rubber.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


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king leopold 3
chief lontulu 2
congo free 2
free state 2
congolese men 2
rubber quotas 2
congolese people 2
leopold built 2

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congo free state 2
king leopold built 2

Important Words


  1. account
  2. ammunition
  3. army
  4. avoid
  5. bring
  6. bullets
  7. commanders
  8. congolese
  9. cooperate
  10. cut
  11. destroyed
  12. duty
  13. executions
  14. expensive
  15. failure
  16. forests
  17. fought
  18. guns
  19. hand
  20. hands
  21. harsh
  22. hid
  23. hunted
  24. killed
  25. line
  26. living
  27. lost
  28. meet
  29. met
  30. officers
  31. ordered
  32. penalties
  33. people
  34. practice
  35. prove
  36. punishment
  37. quotas
  38. refused
  39. removing
  40. resistance
  41. responded
  42. rubber
  43. sever
  44. soldiers
  45. torture
  46. unflinching
  47. vines