Q 01/05

Livingstone's famous motto for Africa was 'Christianity, Commerce and' what?

A) Civilization

B) Conversion

C) Cultivation

D) Conquest

Answer · why

A) Civilization

Civilization. He believed the three together would open up Africa, with honest trade along the Zambezi giving chiefs an alternative to selling captive...

Q 02/05

From the age of ten, David Livingstone worked 14-hour days in what kind of mill?

A) Cotton

B) Wool

C) Linen

D) Jute

Answer · why

A) Cotton

Cotton. He spent part of his first week's wages on a Latin grammar and propped his books on the spinning jenny, reading a sentence each time he passed...

Q 03/05

In 1864 Livingstone sailed his small river steamer 2,500 miles across the Indian Ocean to sell it in which city?

A) Aden

B) Bombay

C) Calcutta

D) Colombo

Answer · why

B) Bombay

Bombay. His engineer had quit, so with a scanty, untrained crew and little fuel he served as his own captain and engineer.

Q 04/05

Which organisation sent Livingstone out to Africa in 1840?

A) The Church Missionary Society

B) The London Missionary Society

C) The Baptist Missionary Society

D) The Society of Jesus

Answer · why

B) The London Missionary Society

The London Missionary Society. He chose it for its 'perfectly unsectarian character': it sent out, he wrote, no single church but simply the Gospel.

Q 05/05

Livingstone first wanted to be a missionary in which country before Africa?

A) Jamaica

B) Brazil

C) China

D) India

Answer · why

C) China

China. An appeal for medical missionaries there set him studying medicine, but the First Opium War shut the door before he could sail.