EXAM #2 FALL 2009 SAMPLE QUESTIONS
LATIN AMERICA AND
1. Most of the land in
a. was owned by large landowners.
b. was owned by small farmers.
c. was used to produce food to feed
d. was owned by the Catholic Church.
2. After independence in the 1820s, the nations of
a. soon became wealthy and developed like Western Europe and the
b. modeled their laws after France and the
c. created socialist governments that took land away from large landowners and gave it to the poor.
d. imported slaves from
3.
a. being able to successfully promote import-substitution industrialization, since its earnings from exports could pay for importing machines for factories.
b. becoming one of the most underdeveloped nations in the world because of these close ties to the core.
c. having a high degree of equality because of the high value of these exports.
d. becoming a core nation.
4. Jorge was granted one of the fifteen captaincies in
a. the use of coerced labor.
b. large landowners were the most powerful political force during the colonial era.
c. patron-client relations.
d. the role of the family as an economic survival strategy in
5. The Brazilian military government's export-led development efforts included all of the following EXCEPT:
a. promoting capital goods industrialization.
b. increasing workers' wages so that they could buy Brazilian made industrial products.
c. building large projects in the Amazon to mine, process and export raw materials to the core.
d. using TNC investment and foreign loans to pay for these development
efforts.
6. One difference between the racial systems of
a. in
b. in
c. Africans kept more of their distinct ethnic characteristics in the
d. there is a higher rate of interaction between racial groups in the
7. ________ conquered most of
a.
c.
8. Severino is an agricultural worker who lives in
a. the historical legacy of the captaincies.
b. the role of private violence rather than reliance on the police and legal system.
c. the legacy of the military government in
d. the role of coerced labor.
9. The video on
a. life in the Swahili Empire of Greater Zimbabwe.
b. the role of the Spanish in colonizing
c. the difficult living conditions in urban areas in
d. how race is determined in
10. In
a. the role of the family in
b. patron-client relations.
c. the impacts of ISI in
d. a legacy of colonialism.
11. Marianismo in
a. women should be independent from men.
b. women should have full time jobs in the public sphere to support their children.
c. women have moral authority over childlike men.
d. female promiscuity.
12. __________ has the goal of providing a preferential option for the poor
in
a. Liberation Theology in Catholicism
b. Spiritism
c. Pentecostalism
d. Protestantism
13. __________ replaced
a. The
14. Roberto is a Brazilian who is the president of a large company and earns $500,000 per year. Both of his parents are black, and his skin color is very dark brown. If you would ask Roberto's closest Brazilian friends what his race is, they would use all of the following criteria to determine his race EXCEPT:
a. skin color. b. ancestry.
c. social distance. d. social class.
15. Antonio is a candidate for Congress in
a. patron-client relations.
b. the lack of democracy in
c. the lack of faith in democracy in
d. the continued economic and political power of elites.
16. Similarities between the Brazilian and
a. the rate of interracial marriage is the same in both nations.
b. immigration policies historically favored Europeans over other racial groups in both nations.
c. the origins of the systems in both nations are in the history of slavery of Africans and their descendants.
d. lighter color is higher status in both nations.
17. The video on life in
a. the impacts of violence on urban residents.
b. how people leave the difficult living conditions of the cities in
c. the inability of governments to provide adequate water, sewers, and
transportation for rapidly growing cities in
d. the impacts of poverty and lack of access to birth control on families.
18. In
a. feminist b. feminine c. marianismo d. spiritism
19. __________ provided most of the labor in mines and on plantations in
a. Native Americans b. Slaves imported from
c. Immigrants from
20. _________ conquered
a.
21. Alberto is a Brazilian whose father is a member of an indigenous group
and whose mother is black. Alberto grew up very poor in a favela shantytown in
a. would be assigned to the race of the parent with the lower racial status.
b. would be classified as black.
c. would be classified as white because of his social class position.
d. would be assigned to the race of his father, since
22. Roberto is a member of one of the largest landowning families in
a. filing a complaint with the local police.
b. hiring off-duty police to protect his farm and to attack his rival's plantation.
c. filing a lawsuit to sue his rival for damages.
d. abandoning his farm and moving to
23. _________ is a process of exploitation of a periphery by a core nation that benefits the core nation's economic growth but leaves the periphery with a legacy of inequality, lost resources, political instability, and environmental degradation that makes future development very difficult to achieve.
a. Metropolization b. Peripheralization
c. Underdevelopment d. Development
24. __________ is assigning a child to the race of the parent with lower racial status.
a. Hypodescent b. Apartheid
c. Racial profiling d. Institutional discrimination
25. During the colonial era in
a. slaves were imported from
b. most land was owned by small farmers.
c. societies were highly stratified and unequal.
d. manufactured products were exported from Latin American colonies to
26. During the colonial era,
a. Metropolization b. Peripheralization
c. Underdevelopment d. Development
27. The most important roles of
a. underdevelopment. b. development.
c. peripheralization. d. metropolis/satellite relationships.
28. One continuity in the Brazilian economy since the colonial era is:
a. one of the most egalitarian income distributions in the world.
b. soybean production for export to the core.
c. boom and bust cycles in different industries.
d. dependence on markets in the periphery for Brazilian products.
29. Ana lives in a favela in Rio de Janeiro with her three young children. Her husband left home two years ago to move in with one of his girlfriends, and he now has other children with two of his girlfriends. Ana works part time in a small store, and spends most of her time taking care of her children. Ana joined a group of other mothers a few months ago that lobbied the city government successfully to get water and sewer lines installed in their neighborhood, an effort that has significantly improved the quality of life in their neighborhood. This is an example of all of the following EXCEPT:
a. a feminist movement. b. a feminine movement.
c. machismo. d. marianismo.
30. _________ are isolated communities of escaped slaves in isolated areas of the interior of Brazil.
a. Messianic movements b. Horticultural societies
c. Quilombos d. Yoruba
31. Historically, the largest religion in Brazil has been:
a. Islam. b. Catholicism.
c. Protestantism. d. Pentecostalism.
32. After the Latin American colonies became independent in the early 1800s:
a. France replaced Spain as the major investor and trading partner in Latin America.
b. France replaced Portugal as the major investor and trading partner in Latin America.
c. standards of living declined dramatically from what they had been during the colonial period.
d. the new nations modeled their laws after France and the U.S.
33. One example of the distrust of the government in Brazil is:
a. very low voter turnout for elections.
b. the large number of people who work in the informal sector.
c. the elephant in the living room commercial.
d. the reliance on civil lawsuits to seek damages from the government for
actions that negatively impact Brazilian citizens.
34. Andre Gunder Frank argued that the underdevelopment of Latin America resulted from:
a. the slave trade.
b. its centuries-long participation in the process of world capitalist development.
c. the socialist development policies of many Latin American governments.
d. the region's isolation from the core.
35. One impact of slavery on Brazil was that:
a. it led to a tradition of equality.
b. it imparted a strong African flavor to Brazilian culture.
c. it brought millions of Asians to Brazil as slaves.
d. it established Protestantism as the dominant religion in Brazil.
36. In the Modern Brazil book, ________ is defined as how people are supposed to behave.
a. ideal culture b. real culture
c. garimpeiros d. values
37. One example of cultural leveling in Brazil is:
a. Avon. b. ecclesiastical base communities.
c. Mercosul. d. spiritism.
38. Andre Gunder Frank argued that Sao Paulo's industrial growth led to ______________________ .
a. the creation of linkages in other regions of Brazil.
b. the creation of demand for raw materials from the Amazon, leading the military government to begin developing the region's resources.
c. the development of the Rubber Boom in the Amazon, since Brazilian companies now had the capital necessary to develop the rubber industry themselves.
d. consolidated or even deepened the underdevelopment of other regions of
Brazil.
39. African slaves in Brazil were able to maintain some cultural integrity because:
a. during the colonial era, most people in Brazil lived in horticultural societies.
b. the only Africans imported into Brazil as slaves all came from West Africa.
c. the constant stream of new arrivals allowed Brazilian slaves to maintain stronger ties to Africa.
d. the Portuguese government allowed slaves to maintain their own religions,
rather than forcing them to convert to Catholicism, in order to reduce the
number of slave rebellions.
40. Roberto is a Brazilian with blond hair, blue eyes, and very pale skin whose grandparents immigrated from Germany to Brazil in the early 1900s to work on a farm. Roberto's family was never able to earn enough money farming to escape poverty, and Roberto now lives in a very poor neighborhood in one of the largest cities in Brazil. Roberto earns about $400 per year doing odd jobs for a wealthy family that earns more than ten million dollars a year from the large sugar plantations and factories that it owns. As part of his job for the wealthy family, Roberto votes for the political candidates that the family supports. All of the following would be true about Roberto's life EXCEPT:
a. Roberto's grandparents came to Brazil during the Coffee Boom to work on a coffee farm.
b. the legacy of tremendous inequality that began during the colonial era continues to affect Roberto today.
c. the legacy of patron-client relations in Brazil continues to affect Roberto today.
d. in determining Roberto's racial status, other Brazilians would consider
his ancestry to be the most important factor, instead of his skin color.
41. In the Brazilian colonial economy, all of the following were true EXCEPT:
a. the entire country was divided into 15 captaincies.
b. the Portuguese government promoted Import-Substitution Industrialization in Brazil.
c. major exports included sugar, brazilwood, and oil for lighting.
d. large landowners had most government responsibilities.
42. The key problem for the nations of Latin America in following the model of development used in Europe and the U.S. was:
a. the underdevelopment of Latin America.
b. Latin America was never underdeveloped, only undeveloped.
c. elites in Europe and the U.S. had blocked political participation by other groups in their societies, while democracy in Latin America meant that many groups could gain political power and use this power to benefit themselves.
d. the U.S. replaced Spain as the major investor and trading partner for
Latin America in the 1800s.
43. Juan was appointed governor of the Spanish colony of Mexico during the 1500s. Juan worked hard for many years in order to earn a profit for Spain from the colony, and he proved to be a very successful colonial governor. Spain earned large profits from its colony, and the cities of Mexico became very large and prosperous because of the extraction of profits from agriculture and mining in rural areas. Juan's work as a successful colonial governor would have included all of the following EXCEPT:
a. importing slaves from Africa to work in the gold and silver mines.
b. attracting large numbers of small farmers from Spain to settle in Mexico to increase agricultural exports to Spain.
c. creating a legacy of underdevelopment in Mexico.
d. creating metropolis/satellite relationships in Mexico.
44. One of Andre Gunder Frank's five hypotheses about Latin America was:
a. export-led development is the best model for promoting economic growth in the poor nations of Latin America, so the Brazilian government's emphasis on exporting raw materials from the Amazon is a good strategy.
b. the latifundium (plantation, hacienda) was typically born as a commercial enterprise which created for itself the institutions which permitted it to respond to increased demand in the world or national market by expanding the amount of its land, capital, and labor.
c. economic growth is most rapid in areas of satellites that are most closely tied to the metropolis, such as the Brazilian Amazon during the Rubber Boom, so the best strategy for promoting development in Latin America is to create close ties to TNCs with access to capital and technology.
d. poverty in Latin America today is the result of the inability of small
farms in Latin America to generate enough export revenues to fund industrial
growth in the region.
45. __________ for clients in Brazil is defined as publicly expressing deference and loyalty, but privately seeking ways to gain more than they give in the relationship.
a. Distrust of the government b. Life chances c. Weapons of the weak d.
Peripheralization
46. Residents of the interior of Brazil see the interior as:
a. a frontier to be exploited for its natural resources in order to help Brazil develop the way the U.S. did.
b. having open spaces where people live secure in the familiarity of traditional communities.
c. backward, rural and poor.
d. an area that should belong to the indigenous peoples because it is their
traditional homeland.
47. ____________ is defined as the intense emotion that comes with longing for something that is gone, perhaps forever.
a. Quilombo b. Yoruba c. Prejudice d. Saudade
48. In Brazilian politics, one historical legacy that began during the colonial period and continues today is:
a. the use of private violence rather than reliance on the police and legal system.
b. a constitution that limits the right to vote to only those who own large amounts of property.
c. a strong national government.
d. a socialist national government.
49. In terms of politics, the nations of Latin America did all of the following EXCEPT:
a. gained independence from Spain and Portugal in the early 1800s.
b. modeled their laws after the former colonial powers of Spain and Portugal.
c. had elites who blocked political participation by the rest of society.
d. had military leaders who often seized direct control and installed
dictators.
50. Similarities in the racial systems in the U.S. and Brazil include all of the following EXCEPT:
a. race is a simple biological characteristic.
b. genocide of indigenous peoples.
c. there is a close relationship between race and class status.
d. the systems had their origins in the history of slavery of Africans and
their descendants.
51. In comparing the racial systems in the U.S. and Brazil, one difference is:
a. Brazil has a system of hypodescent, while the U.S. does not.
b. there is a higher rate of interracial marriage in Brazil than in the U.S.
c. there is a higher rate of interaction between racial groups in the U.S. than in Brazil.
d. Africans kept more of their distinct ethnic characteristics in the U.S.
than in Brazil.
52. The elephant in the living room commercial in Brazil is an example of:
a. how a telegenic presidential candidate can win elections with the support of the largest television and media empire in Brazil.
b. how cutting inflation has made many lower income Brazilians better off.
c. how cutting inflation has helped only wealthier Brazilians.
d. distrust of the government in Brazil.
53. __________ is a tree containing a valuable red dye.
a. Rubber tree b. Brazilwood c. Mahogany d. Pombal
AFRICA
54. Large empires in pre-colonial Africa centered on:
a. rainforests. b. deserts.
c. large rivers. d. the coasts.
55. The video on the Swahili Empire of Greater Zimbabwe showed:
a. the empire's role in selling slaves to North and South America.
b. the long distance trade relations between Zimbabwe and the Middle East and Asia.
c. how the European colonial powers divided up the empire after the Berlin Conference.
d. how the Dutch established a settler colony in the 1650s.
56. Before the 1880s in Africa:
a. there were very few European colonies.
b. the Ottoman Empire controlled South Africa.
c. all African societies were small tribal groups constantly at war with each other.
d. the dominant religion in North Africa was Christianity.
57. The __________ set the ground rules for European competition to capture and hold colonies in Africa.
a. pope b. Portuguese emperor
c. Suez Canal Conference d. Berlin Conference
58. Monocrop plantations were created in Africa by:
a. West African kingdoms. b. the Ottoman Empire.
c. European colonialism. d. the slave trade.
59. One important shared characteristic of West Africa is that:
a. most of the land in the region is desert.
b. colonialism left modern states with different systems of government administration and unconnected infrastructure.
c. Belgian colonial rule was so harsh that it left all nations in the region severely underdeveloped.
d. the region has a long tradition of migrant labor to the Middle East.
60. In North Africa, the European powers took over the colonies of the ______ empire between the 1830s and the 1910s.
A. Swahili b. U.S.
C. Dutch d. Ottoman
61. Tribalism:
A. was the system of political organization of North Africa before the colonial period
b. was the system of political organization in all of Africa before the colonial period.
c. was the system of political organization in the Swahili Empire of Greater Zimbabwe.
d. was created by European colonialism.
62. __________ is an African nation that is the world's largest exporter of bauxite.
a. Guinea b. South Africa
c. Nigeria d. Liberia
63. __________ was founded by African-Americans who became the nation's elite.
a. South Africa b. Liberia
c. Somalia d. Egypt
64. The U.S. led a failed U.N. military intervention in ________ because the nation is located along the major oil tanker shipping route from the Persian Gulf to the Red Sea.
a. South Africa b. Liberia
c. Somalia d. Libya
65. Differences between colonialism in Latin America and Africa include all of the following EXCEPT:
a. colonialism led to a much greater volume of immigration in Latin America
b. Latin American indigenous peoples were largely eliminated, but not in Africa
c. Latin American kingdoms were much more successful at resisting colonialism
d. colonialism lasted much longer in Latin America
66. In the Global Studies: Africa book, in _________ great kingdoms expanded and contracted across the savanna and forest, giving rise to sophisticated civilizations.
a. West Africa b. Liberia
c. North Africa d. Somalia
67. The European "code of ethics" for the slave trade was that:
a. captured slaves should be converted to Christianity.
b. only young adult males and females should be captured and sold as slaves.
c. the slave trade was justified only when it involved slaves duly sold by Africans.
d. slaves should only be captured by the "roving" trade.
68. __________ is a former French colony that opted out of the French Community after it became independent.
a. South Africa b. Liberia c. Brazil d. Guinea
69. David was a Rwandan who owned a small farm. He married a woman of another ethnic group and raised his children to be proud of both parts of their ancestral heritage and of being Rwandan citizens. When the civil war began in 1994 in Rwanda, David was murdered. David could have been all of the following EXCEPT:
a. Hutu. b. someone who favored a multiethnic Rwandan society.
c. Tutsi. d. a warlord.
70. John was a slave in the U.S. in the early 1800s. A group of abolitionists bought his freedom from his owner, put him on a ship to Africa, and gave him money to buy a large farm in Africa. John went to:
a. Guinea. b. Liberia. c. South Africa. d. Nigeria.
71. Sarah is an African woman with three children. Her husband works as a migrant laborer on a farm in South Africa, and she stays behind with her children on their farm in Zimbabwe. When drought struck the region last year, two of her children starved to death because Sarah's crops died and there was no food available in the local markets, even though the country still exported thousands of tons of cocoa from plantations to Europe. This is an example of all of the following EXCEPT:
a. underdevelopment.
b. the changes in agriculture brought about by colonialism.
c. the changes in families brought about by colonialism.
d. the historical risk of malnutrition and starvation in Africa because of
difficult natural conditions for agriculture.
72. Differences between colonialism in Africa and Latin America included all of the following EXCEPT:
a. colonialism began much earlier in Latin America.
b. African indigenous peoples were largely eliminated.
c. African kingdoms were much more successful at resisting colonialism.
d. African elites were often used by Europeans to indirectly rule the
colonies.
73. ___________ are defined as institutions that were sold extensive rights (often 99-year leases granting political as well as economic powers) to exploit such local products in Africa as ivory and rubber.
a. Colonial corporations b. Neocolonial companies
c. Transnational corporations d. European concessions companies
74. _________ are defined as those using public service for personal gain.
a. Kleptocracy b. Rent-seekers c. Warlords d. Evolved ones
75. Iron production and forging techniques that were highly developed more than 2,000 years ago:
a. showed a level of technological development that was significantly greater in Africa than in Europe.
b. showed a level of technological development that was significantly greater in Europe than in Africa.
c. allowed the European nations to develop military technologies that made them the world's strongest economic powers.
d. allowed the Islamic Empire to conquer Latin America.
76. The __________ established trading posts along the West African coast in the late 1400s and 1500s.
a. Portuguese b. Dutch c. British d. French
77. Prior to European colonialism in Africa:
a. the indigenous peoples of Africa lived in small tribal groups that were constantly at war with each other.
b. African societies were extremely patriarchal, and as a result the status of women was very low.
c. African kingdoms were multi-ethnic and often incorporated millions of people.
d. African societies were extremely poor, since difficult natural conditions
led to frequent droughts and mass starvation.
78. __________ colonial exploitation was the harshest in Africa.
a. British b. Dutch c. French d. Belgian
79. Trading gold for Chinese porcelain was a major part of the economy of:
a. Brazil. b. Mexico.
c. Spain. d. the Swahili Empire.
80. A coalition group of Muslim fundamentalists that began as a political organization in Algeria but was forced by a military coup to become an armed resistance movement is the:
a. Islamic Salvation Front b. Palestinian Liberation Organization
c. Muslim Brotherhood d. Hamas.
81. The small group of high-school-educated Congolese who served the needs of the Belgian administration that never intended nor planned for Zaire's independence was called the:
a. kleptocracy. b. ECOWAS. c. Cabinda. d. evolved ones.
82. Albert was in charge of a European colony in Africa in the late 1800s and early 1900s. He developed many mines and plantations in his colony that exported raw materials to the imperial country in Europe. To protect these mines and plantations from rebellions and to ensure that his African workers did not complain about poor wages or dangerous working conditions, Albert periodically ordered the murder of tens of thousands of Africans who resisted his orders. Albert would have been in charge of:
a. the Congo. b. South Africa. c. Guinea. d. Libya.
83. One impact of slavery was:
a. it provided labor for plantations and mines in Asia that exported to Europe.
b. the European imperial powers were able to conquer almost all of Africa during the 1500s.
c. it supplied 10-20% of the capital for investment during the Industrial Revolution in Europe and the U.S.
d. it supplied labor for the factories being built during the Industrial
Revolution in Europe.
84. The ____________ set up the ground rules for European competition to capture and hold colonies in Africa.
a. Berlin Conference b. Geneva Convention
c. Africa Conference d. Africa Convention
85. The harshest case of colonial rule in Africa, including the genocide of ten million Africans, was in:
a. the Congo. b. Nigeria. c. South Africa. d. Libya.
86. Natural characteristics of Africa include all of the following EXCEPT:
a. tremendous diversity of ecosystems.
b. limited arable land because of mountainous terrain.
c. a huge land area.
d. tremendous mineral resources.
87. ___________ is a gritty, superheavy mud that is refined into tantalum.
a. Coltan b. Mandarin c. Kleptocracy d. Cobalt
88. John was a British slave trader during the 1700s. He owned a fleet of ships that carried Africans to the British colonies in the Caribbean, where they worked on sugar plantations that exported sugar to Europe on John's fleet of ships. Because of the high profits of his slave trading and shipping businesses, John was able to invest in a dozen clothing factories in Great Britain and became the largest clothing manufacturer in Europe. When John was asked to explain how he could be involved in what many people in Great Britain considered to be the cruel and inhuman slave trade, John would always answer that "slavery is part of African society, there has been a slave trade between Africa and the Middle East for centuries, and I only buy slaves from African leaders; I do not steal people in raids." This is an example of all of the following EXCEPT:
a. European justifications for the slave trade.
b. the impacts of the European conquest of Africa.
c. the impacts of slavery.
d. the relationship between African kingdoms and the slave trade.
89. ___________ is a strategy to promote development supported by President Nasser of Egypt that called for increasing ties between all peripheral nations in an effort to become more independent from the core.
a. Non-Aligned Movement b. Pan-Africanism
c. Socialism d. Pan-Arabism
90. Khalid is a Muslim who lives in a small village in the Sahara Desert. Khalid lives in ________ Africa.
a. North b. South c. East d. West
91. James was a resident of a British colony in Africa in 1900. In order to find work to support his family, James had to leave his family farm to work as a migrant worker on a plantation several hundred miles away, leaving his wife to run the farm and care for the family's children. This is an example of how European colonialism:
a. led to a decline in the status of women.
b. led to the disintegration of the African economy.
c. was shaped by African tribalism.
d. invented traditional leaders to control colonies.
92. Alan is a large landowner in an African nation. His ancestors had migrated to Africa in the early 1800s from the United States and established a large plantation; Alan now has thousands of employees who rely on him for jobs, housing, and many other kinds of help, and in return they work for Alan, support his chosen political candidates, and are willing to do anything Alan asks them to do. Alan lives in:
a. South Africa. b. Liberia. c. Nigeria. d. the Congo.
93. Walter Rodney argued that the power to act independently is important because:
a. it was the key to Japan escaping the control of the European imperial powers.
b. it is the guarantee to participate actively and consciously in history.
c. it was the key to Liberia escaping the control of the European imperial powers.
d. it was what distinguished indentured servants from slaves in the
Caribbean colonies.
94. At the Berlin Conference, representatives of all of the major European imperial powers met to decide the future of Africa. During these meetings, the topics of discussion would have included all of the following EXCEPT:
a. how to conquer Liberia, the only kingdom that had been able to defeat European armies.
b. drawing up artificial boundaries between colonies.
c. how to reduce the potential for African resistance to colonialism.
d. setting the ground rules for European competition to capture and hold
colonies in Africa.
95. One difference between European colonialism in Africa and Latin America was:
a. African kingdoms were much more successful at resisting colonialism than Latin American societies were.
b. colonialism began much earlier in Africa than in Latin America.
c. colonialism led to a much greater volume of immigration in Africa than in Latin America.
d. colonialism lasted much longer in Africa than in Latin America.
96. One shared challenge for African nations is:
a. controlling extremely destructive floods.
b. large foreign debts.
c. the legacies of socialist governments.
d. high rates of taxation of businesses discourage foreign investment.
97. The primary defect of slavery was:
a. the high cost of acquiring and transporting slaves from Africa to North and South America.
b. that it quickly exhausts the soil.
c. the harsh working conditions led to high mortality rates and the need to frequently buy new slaves, raising the costs of production.
d. the reliance on African political leaders and slave traders for supplies
of slaves meant that there were never enough slaves available to satisfy demand
in North and South America.
98. Rwanda was first colonized by:
a. Germany. b. France. c. Great Britain. d. Portugal.
99. One reason for the Berlin Conference and the Scramble for Africa was:
a. the need for growing numbers of slaves for the European colonies in North and South America.
b. the need for products to sell in China, which had repeatedly refused European attempts to develop a trading relationship.
c. the need to raise money to fund the Industrial Revolution in Europe.
d. the recognition of the mineral wealth of South Africa.
100. One reason for the end of colonialism in Africa and the beginning of independence was:
a. economic growth in Europe after World War II made colonies unnecessary.
b. droughts destroyed the productivity of African plantations, making it cheaper for the European powers to get rid of their now unprofitable colonies.
c. chronic malnourishment in Africa made Africans too weak to provide labor for mines and plantations by the middle of the twentieth century.
d. armed resistance in Africa to the imperial powers.
101. ______ were Hutu death squads in Rwanda.
a. Genocide squads b. Evolved ones
c. Zero Network d. Islamic Salvation Front
102. Desertification because of overgrazing of savanna and deforestation is a major problem in:
a. China. b. Japan. c. North Africa. d. West Africa.
103. One characteristic of the pre-colonial history of Africa is:
a. the importation of the institution of the emperor from China.
b. the region's population lived in small tribal groups that were frequently at war with each other.
c. the region isolated itself from contact with other parts of the world.
d. large empires were centered on major rivers that provided transportation,
irrigation and fertile land.
104. Large areas of rainforest are a shared characteristic of:
a. Southern Africa. b. Central Africa. c. China. d. East Africa.
105. The video on the Swahili Empire of Greater Zimbabwe illustrated:
a. the severe impacts of flooding.
b. the process of building the world's largest dam.
c. the impacts of the slave trade.
d. the region's trade relations with China.
106. The apartheid system provided white mine and farm owners with cheap, easily controlled labor in:
a. South Africa. b. Somalia. c. Rwanda. d. Egypt.
107. Sam was the leader of an African nation when it became independent. Sam's government refused to maintain ties to its former colonizer, France, and the country became the world's leading exporter of bauxite. Sam was the leader of:
a. Liberia. b. Nigeria. c. South Africa. d. Guinea.
108. ___________ are those who handled small and, later, big business tasks in the colonial empires of European nations.
a. Mandarins b. Clans c. Middleman minorities d. Evolved ones
109. Oil money was used to promote domestic development via universal health care, housing and education in:
a. Egypt. b. Libya. c. Nigeria. d. the Congo.
110. The Hausa, Yoruba and Igbo are:
a. the three groups governed by pass laws in South Africa.
b. the three largest minority groups in China today.
c. the three largest minority groups in Japan today.
d. the three major ethnolinguistic groups in Nigeria.
ANSWER KEY
1. A
2. B
3. B
4. D
5. B
6. A
7. C
8. C
9. C
10. C
11. C
12. A
13. B
14. B
15. B
16. A
17. B
18. A
19. B
20. D
21. C
22. B
23. C
24. A
25. C
26. C
27. C
28. C
29. A
30. C
31. B
32. D
33. C
34. B
35. B
36. A
37. A
38. D
39. C
40. D
41. B
42. A
43. B
44. B
45. C
46. B
47. D
48. A
49. B
50. A
51. B
52. D
53. B
54. C
55. B
56. A
57. D
58. C
59. B
60. D
61. D
62. A
63. B
64. C
65. C
66. A
67. C
68. D
69. D
70. B
71. D
72. B
73. D
74. B
75. A
76. A
77. C
78. D
79. D
80. A
81. D
82. A
83. C
84. A
85. A
86. B
87. A
88. B
89. A
90. A
91. A
92. B
93. B
94. A
95. A
96. B
97. B
98. A
99. D
100. D
101. C
102. D
103. D
104. B
105. D
106. A
107. D
108. C
109. B
110. D