Question 1

African countries have mostly avoided disputes between Muslim and Christian sects because African tribal traditions have a deep respect for different religions.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 2

In regard to agricultural development in colonial Africa, it can be said that

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A)   the European "Green Revolution" seeds saved millions of lives in the 1930s.
B)   most export profits were returned to local populations.
C)   most of the native rural population grew their crops solely for their own sustenance.
D)   modern industrial development was relevant to the crop production of most Africans.
E)   after 1963 opium was shipped from Africa to Afghanistan.F) None of the above
G) A) and C)

Question 3

The sometimes violent Mau Mau movement was centered in

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A)   French Algeria.
B)   Portugese Angola.
C)   Dutch South Africa.
D)   British Kenya.
E)   the Belgian Congo.F) A) and B)
G) A) and C)

Question 4

Identify the following terms: 
 National Congress of British West Africa

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Question 5

In today's African society

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A)   African intellectuals have satisfactorily synthesized the issues posed by African negritude and Western cultural influences.
B)   African intellectuals remain torn between the qualities and opportunities presented by Western civilization and those of traditional African cultures.
C)   the East Asian model of subordinating the individual to the community has had no influence among African politicians.
D)   the average African is mainly interested in obtaining a university education, symbolized by obtaining a new Mercedes-Benz.
E)   it is obvious that all the problems and challenges associated with independence have either already been solved or will be solved in the immediate future.F) D) and E)
G) A) and B)

Question 6

In recent decades Nigeria has experienced all of the following except

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A)   military rulers.
B)   tension between Christians and Muslims.
C)   struggles between pastoralists and farmers.
D)   wide-spread prosperity because of its great natural resources.
E)   considerable political and military violence.F) A) and E)
G) All of the above

Question 7

The evidence of the successful transition to pluralistic governments in many African countries is that since 1957 very few leaders have been overthrown with violence.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 8

Recently, a violent conflict of holocaust dimensions between the minority Tutsis and the Hutu majority occurred in

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A)   Zimbabwe and Zambia.
B)   Uganda and Ethiopia.
C)   Rwanda and Burundi.
D)   Nigeria and the Congo.
E)   South Africa and Angola.F) C) and E)
G) B) and D)

Question 9

Perhaps the greatest success story in Africa in recent decades as been in South Africa where in the 1990s

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A)   the black minority achieved equal rights as the result of a successful revolution.
B)   the white majority granted economic equality to the nation's black population.
C)   apartheid was abolished and non-whites achieved political and social equality.
D)   F. W. de Klerk was elected the nation's first black prime minister.
E)   separate regions were set aside for the country's black population.F) A) and C)
G) B) and E)

Question 10

After World War II, the Europeans assumed that colonial rule would continue in Africa indefinitely.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 11

The Western colonial presence in Africa resulted in all of the following except

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A)   a fully developed industrial sector throughout the entire continent.
B)   an improvement in sanitation and medical care.
C)   little improvement in living conditions for most Africans.
D)   a continued reliance on the export of raw materials.
E)   a limited introduction of Western political systems.F) A) and D)
G) A) and C)

Question 12

Identify the following terms: 
 Morocco and Sultan Muhammad V

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Question 13

Identify the following terms: 
 Kenya's Daniel arap Moi

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Question 14

Identify the following terms: 
 desertification of the Sahara

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Question 15

The organization established in Addis Ababa in 1963 to further continental unity was the

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A)   African National Congress (AN
C)  .
B)   People's Party Convocation (PP
C)  .
C)   African Economic Community (AE
C)  .
D)   Organization of African Unity (OAU) .
E)   African Community Congress (AC
C)  .F) C) and D)
G) A) and D)

Question 16

Literature in Africa

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A)   has had a long written language tradition.
B)   in written form only emerged after post-World War II independence.
C)   in substance and subject matter has never been critical of African society or African leaders.
D)   is the monopoly of males in what is still an overwhelmingly patriarchal society.
E)   is written both in European and vernacular languages.F) None of the above
G) B) and E)

Question 17

Identify the following terms: 
 Liberia's Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf

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Question 18

Education in pre-colonial Africa

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A)   did not exist.
B)   was always a male preserve, both as teachers and as students.
C)   was only available in large cities.
D)   taught social values and customs through books printed on parchment.
E)   was usually in the hands of storytellers who imparted values and customs to their listeners.F) A) and B)
G) All of the above

Question 19

Identify the following terms: 
 Tutsi and Hutu

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Question 20

Identify the following terms: 
 Wole Soyinka's The Interpreters

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