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History Of Africa
Test Description: Covers History of Africa according to Georgia 7th grade standards.
Instructions: Answer all questions to get your test result.
1) Who became the first black president of South Africa?
A
Nelson Mandela
B
Wilhelm DeKlerk
C
Desmond Tutu
D
Joseph Kenyatta
2) Though the Europeans were initially interested in Africa due to the slave trade, the primary reason they began to colonize Africa was:
A
access to raw materials
B
to obtain factories and industry
C
to gain military prestige
D
access to land for their booming populations
3) The second most important imperialist presence in Africa was France. Who was first (the most important)?
A
Belgium
B
Portugal
C
Great Britain
D
Spain
4) The UN placed economic sanctions on South Africa in the late 1980s primarily to pressure the leaders to end:
A
Civil War
B
Colonization
C
Apartheid
D
Slave Trade
5) South African leaders chose to end apartheid due to:
A
civil war
B
economic sanctions
C
both a and b
D
the effects on the nation's international reputation
6) State sanctioned racial segregation once practiced in South Africa was:
A
Zionism
B
Apartheid
C
Nationalism
D
Assimilation
7) Which South African president first began repealing apartheid laws?
A
Desmond Tutu
B
Nelson Mandela
C
Wilhelm DeKlerk
D
Joseph Kenyatta
8) Where did the Mau Mau Rebellion occur?
A
South Africa
B
South Sudan
C
Kenya
D
Nigeria
9) Which idea most clearly played in important part in African independence?
A
imperialism
B
economic sanctions
C
apartheid
D
nationalism
10) What is unique about Ethiopia and Liberia?
A
Both have absolute monarchies headed by queens
B
Both were colonized by the British
C
Both were created following the Pan African Movement
D
Both were never colonized by any European power
11) What movement, that Marcus Garvey helped start, sought to unite the people of African and those world wide of African descent under a common goal of ending European colonization?
A
Nationalism
B
Anti Semitism
C
Zionism
D
Pan Africanism
12) What country is composed of more than 250 different ethnic groups?
A
South Africa
B
Nigeria
C
Kenya
D
South Sudan
13) What was the purpose of the Berlin Conference?
A
to end civil war among African nations
B
to end apartheid
C
to start the Pan-African Movement
D
to agree on the European partitioning of Africa
14) Who led a Kenyan independence movement to free the nation of British control?
A
Joseph Kenyatta
B
Frederik Willem de Klerk
C
Marcus Garvey
D
Desmond Tutu
15) To protest apartheid, what did the US, Japan, and many European nations do beginning in 1986?
A
invaded South Africa
B
began an embargo against South African goods
C
refused to allow South Africa to join the United Nations
D
they did nothing
16) Europeans divided not consider what when creating the boundaries of colonial Africa?
A
European economic goals
B
differences among ethnic groups
C
European political goals
D
location of natural resources
17) African boundaries today are based primarily on:
A
artificial colonial boundaries
B
boundaries created by the UN
C
tribal boundaries
D
dispersion of ethnic groups
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