Chapter 7 Subsaharan Africa – MC

Which of the following is true?

A. The Bulge of Africa is in the south, the Horn is in the north.
B. The Bulge of Africa is in the west, the Horn is in the east.
C. The Bulge of Africa is in the north, the Horn is in the south.
D. The Bulge of Africa is a desert area and the Horn is tropical.
E. None of the above.

B. The Bulge of Africa is in the west, the Horn is in the east.

The physical geography of the African land mass is unusual because:

A. the continent is dominated by a north-south trending, folded mountain chain of
dimensions
larger even than the Andes
B. unlike East Asia and western South America, Africa is without active volcanoes and
does not
record earthquakes
C. Africa’s rivers (Niger, Nile, Zambezi) are graded streams, uninterrupted by major
waterfalls
or rapids
D. elevations in Africa, the shield continent, are uniformly low and do not exceed 10,000
feet
E. the landmass is cut by a system of rift valleys that extends from the northern end of the
Red Sea to Swaziland in Southern Africa

E. the landmass is cut by a system of rift valleys that extends from the northern end of the Red Sea to Swaziland in Southern Africa

The fault system in East Africa is the:

A. Tell
B. Rift Valley
C. Great Escarpment
D. continental drifter
E. Great Divide

B. Rift Valley

The Sudd area of southern Sudan is traversed by which of the following rivers:

A. Niger
B. The Congo
C. Nile
D. Zambezi
E. Orange

C. Nile

Which of the following associations is incorrect?

A. Niger River, Bulge of Africa
B. Congo River, The Congo
C. Zambezi River, Angola
D. Nile River, Sudan
E. Orange River, Kenya

E. Orange River, Kenya

The landform term that best describes the African continent as a whole is:

A. plateau
B. coastal plain
C. mountain-and-valley flatland
D. desert
E. Alpine-like mountains

A. plateau

Which of the following is associated with the concept of continental drift?

A. schistosomiasis
B. Gondwana
C. sequent occupance
D. savannas
E. rainforest climate

B. Gondwana

Which of the following statements is false?

A. The majority of Africa’s population is engaged in agriculture for their livelihoods.
B. Most of Africa’s political boundaries were drawn at the beginning of the colonial
period
with little regard for the continent’s patterns of human occupancy.
C. The African continent contains about half of the world’s refugee population.
D. Due to Africa’s difficult agricultural environment, numerous environmental hazards,
diseases, and periodic food shortages, the continent’s population growth rate is below
the worldwide average.
E. Africa today contains no colonial countries.

D. Due to Africa’s difficult agricultural environment, numerous environmental hazards, diseases, and periodic food shortages, the continent’s population growth rate is below the worldwide average.

The major reason that Africa contains no continental-scale mountain range is that:

A. many years of erosion have led to a leveling of formerly significant mountain ranges
B. mountains never formed due to climate conditions
C. Africa was once the center of the landmass from which all other continents broke off,
with
Laurasia in the south and Gondwana in the north
D. Africa was once the center of the landmass from which all other continents broke off,
with Laurasia in the north and Gondwana in the south
E. Africa does have significant mountain ranges that begin at the Dead Sea in Israel and extend
through Swaziland in the South

D. Africa was once the center of the landmass from which all other continents broke off, with Laurasia in the north and Gondwana in the south

Africa’s climate and vegetation regions are symmetric around the:

A. Prime Meridian
B. Tropic of Cancer
C. equator
D. Sahara/tropical transition zone
E. none of the above

C. equator

One of the problems with Africa’s rainfall is:

A. its variability from year to year in some of the marginal zones
B. at the equator there is not enough rainfall to support agriculture
C. that it only rains in the winter
D. the large amount of rainfall in Namibia
E. none of the above

A. its variability from year to year in some of the marginal zones

The Congo River basin supports what type of vegetation?

A. desert
B. savanna
C. tropical rainforest
D. tundra
E. none of the above

C. tropical rainforest

In general, soils in Africa:

A. are most fertile in the Congo River basin
B. are best near the equator and decline in quality as one goes north or south
C. are leached and thus not very fertile
D. are in the alluvial family
E. include large areas of tundra vegetation

C. are leached and thus not very fertile

Which of the following has been used by African countries to protect their wildlife resources?

A. banning hunting
B. expanding national parks
C. combating poaching
D. protecting migration corridors.
E. all of the above are used

E. all of the above are used

The carrier of a disease is known as a(n):

A. vector
B. agent
C. pandemic
D. mortality
E. epidemic

A. vector

A disease that spreads worldwide is known as a(n):

A. vector
B. agent
C. pandemic
D. mortality
E. epidemic

C. pandemic

Life expectancy in Africa is:

A. higher than in most other less developed areas of the world
B. lower than in most other less developed areas of the world
C. much higher in rural than in urban areas
D. much higher in tropical Africa than in North Africa
E. none of the above

A. higher than in most other less developed areas of the world

The major difference between an endemic and a pandemic disease is that:

A. an endemic disease moves swiftly through the population of a local area, whereas a
pandemic disease is simply present, affecting the lives of millions of people in a negative way
B. a pandemic disease moves swiftly through the population of a local area, whereas a endemic
disease is simply present, affecting the lives of millions of people in a negative way
C. a pandemic disease moves through the population of a large area of the world, whereas
an endemic disease is simply present, affecting the lives of millions of people in a negative way
D. there is no difference between an endemic and a pandemic disease
E. none of the above

A. an endemic disease moves swiftly through the population of a local area, whereas a pandemic disease is simply present, affecting the lives of millions of people in a negative way

Which disease does not severely affect Africa’s peoples?

A. yellow fever
B. malaria
C. sleeping sickness
D. bilharzia (schistosomiasis)
E. orontosis

B. malaria

The worst of the endemic African diseases is:

A. malaria
B. tsetse
C. schistosomiasis
D. river blindness
E. black plague

E. black plague

The vector for African sleeping sickness is the:

A. tsetse fly
B. mosquito
C. The disease is genetic
D. snail
E. worm

B. mosquito

The vector for yellow fever is the:

A. tsetse fly
B. mosquito
C. The disease is genetic
D. snail
E. worm

C. The disease is genetic

The vector for river blindness is the:

A. tsetse fly
B. mosquito
C. The disease is genetic
D. snail
E. worm

D. snail

Schistosomiasis has increased when:

A. populations have migrated into dry areas
B. channeled irrigation waters go through farmlands.
C. the UN inadvertently increased the mosquito population
D. the snail population has decreased
E. desertification has occurred.

C. the UN inadvertently increased the mosquito population

The most important sector of the African economy is:

A. mining
B. industry
C. agriculture
D. illicit drug trafficking
E. the periodic market

E. the periodic market

Land tenure refers to:

A. the balance between population and land resources
B. the sustainable development level of a tract of land
C. the way people own, occupy, and use land
D. a system not unlike tenure at a university, where once you have land, you keep it
forever
E. a form of subsistence farming

C. the way people own, occupy, and use land

When the Europeans came to Africa they changed the system of land tenure in Africa with a system the Africans called:

A. private ownership
B. collectivization
C. endemism
D. land alienation
E. subsistence agriculture

D. land alienation

The vast majority of African families still depend upon:

A. wage labor from factories and mines
B. nomadic searches for means of subsistence
C. hunting
D. subsistence farming
E. commercial agriculture

E. commercial agriculture

Planting several types of crops in one field is known as:

A. subsistence farming
B. compound farming
C. intercropping
D. land tenure
E. multiple cropping tenure

C. intercropping

Great African civilizations are noted in your textbook in all of the following places except:

A. Ghana
B. Congo
C. Zimbabwe
D. Mali
E. All of the above had great civilizations

E. All of the above had great civilizations

West Africa showed a high degree of regional complementarity between:

A. Ghana and Zimbabwe
B. French and British forces
C. Mali and Chad
D. people in the east and people in the west
E. the peoples of the tropical forest and the people of the dry interior

C. Mali and Chad

The West African city important in trade between Europe and African civilizations was:

A. Lagos
B. Kinshasa
C. Abuja
D. Mombassa
E. Timbuktu

B. Kinshasa

The West African state that played an important role for at least 1,000 years was:

A. Liberia
B. Kinshasa
C. Nigeria
D. Senegal
E. Ghana

A. Liberia

Much of the slave trade out of East Africa (Kenya) was carried on by the:

A. British
B. French
C. Arabs
D. Greeks
E. Slavs

C. Arabs

Ships that operate between the East African Coast and the Arabian Peninsula are called:

A. condominiums
B. dhows
C. Masai
D. endemics
E. ferries

D. endemics

The Berlin Conference:

A. in 1884 divided up most of Africa among the colonial powers
B. created a boundary system that has proved unalterable and that is still in existence
today
C. led to the British achievement of a contiguous Cape-to-Cairo axis
D. launched Germany’s military campaigns in Africa
E. led to the Berlin Treaty between Germany, France, and the Netherlands about the
Congo

C. led to the British achievement of a contiguous Cape-to-Cairo axis

Which of the following statements is false?

A. In most places in Africa, Europeans settled only along the coast.
B. Many blacks brought to the Americas originated in West Africa and were from interior
tribes sold by coastal tribes to European slave traders.
C. The purpose of the Berlin Conference of 1884 was to involve Africans in the future of
their
continent.
D. Ethiopia and Liberia were independent states through the colonial period.
E. The last African colony achieved independence in 1990.

A. In most places in Africa, Europeans settled only along the coast.

Before independence, the modern state of The Congo was a colony of:

A. France
B. Germany
C. Britain
D. Belgium
E. South Africa

C. Britain

Which of the following states was not a colony of France prior to its independence?

A. Ivory Coast
B. Chad
C. Nigeria
D. Senegal
E. Burkina Faso

A. Ivory Coast

The colonial ruler of Ghana was:

A. Britain
B. Portugal
C. Italy
D. France
E. The Guyanese

D. France

Which of the following countries played no role in the colonization of Africa?

A. England
B. France
C. United States
D. Belgium
E. Germany

E. Germany

Which of the following countries was not a French colony prior to its independence?

A. Sudan
B. Chad
C. Senegal
D. Mali
E. Ivory Coast

C. Senegal

Which of the following countries was not a British colony prior to its independence?

A. Botswana
B. Zambia
C. Kenya
D. Ethiopia
E. Malawi

A. Botswana

Which of the following associations is incorrect?

A. Great Britain and indirect rule
B. Portugal and exploitation
C. Belgium and The Congo
D. France and assimilation
E. All of the above are correct

A. Great Britain and indirect rule

One of the last countries to give up its African colonies was:

A. United States
B. Germany
C. Portugal
D. Belgium
E. France

B. Germany

The capital of the former Belgian Congo (now The Congo) was:

A. Leopoldville
B. Brusselville
C. Dakar
D. Brazzaville
E. Congoville

C. Dakar

British rule over its African colonies is best described as:

A. indirect
B. paternal
C. assimilation
D. exploitation
E. none of the above

D. exploitation

Belgian rule over its African colonies is best described as:

A. indirect
B. paternal
C. assimilation
D. exploitation
E. none of the above

E. none of the above

French rule over its African colonies is best described as:

A. indirect
B. paternal
C. assimilation
D. exploitation
E. none of the above

A. indirect

Portuguese rule over its African colonies is best described as:

A. indirect
B. paternal
C. assimilation
D. harsh, direct control
E. none of the above

A. indirect

Which of the following is not one of the legacies of European colonization in Africa?

A. positioning of national boundaries
B. the development of transport patterns
C. the location of capitals
D. the development of the urban system
E. the development of democracies in most African states

C. the location of capitals

One of the unusual features of a map of African languages is the:

A. significant numbers of Hebrew speakers in Gabon
B. existence of a language in Madagascar belonging to the Indonesian subfamily
C. very small number of African languages, despite ethnic differences
D. inroads that Spanish has made in becoming the language of trade in Africa
E. none of the above

B. existence of a language in Madagascar belonging to the Indonesian subfamily

Afrikaans is a:

A. derivative of Dutch
B. language subfamily in southern Africa
C. form of English spoken in Kenya
D. language in the Niger-Congo language subfamily
E. none of the above

E. none of the above

Which of the following statements is false?

A. The Bantu subfamily of languages belongs in the Niger-Congo language family.
B. The Khoisan language family is the oldest surviving language family in Africa.
C. Madagascar’s languages are part of the East African language family.
D. Afrikaans is an Indo-European language spoken in South Africa.
E. Hausa, Yoruba, and Swahili are among major African languages.

D. Afrikaans is an Indo-European language spoken in South Africa.

Which religion has taken hold most strongly in Africa in recent years?

A. Christianity
B. Islam
C. Buddhism
D. Africanism
E. Coptic

B. Islam

Almost all African countries are:

A. nation states
B. plural societies
C. democratic
D. religiously united
E. monarchies

A. nation states

Which of the following associations is incorrect?

A. Hausa and Fulani – Nigeria
B. Kikuyu – Kenya
C. Zulu – South Africa
D. Ibo – Nigeria
E. Yoruba – Tanzania

A. Hausa and Fulani – Nigeria

Which country has no dominant ethnic groups?

A. Nigeria
B. Ethiopia
C. Zimbabwe
D. The Congo
E. Kenya

A. Nigeria

Which of the following statements is false?

A. Subsaharan Africa contains about 45 states.
B. African states are plural societies.
C. Infant mortality in Africa is, compared to other realms, very low.
D. African boundaries often ignore cultural regions.
E. There are very few nation-states in Africa.

A. Subsaharan Africa contains about 45 states.

Twelve African countries recently organized the _______ to promote economic development and political cooperation.

A. SADC
B. OAS
C. ACM
D. SACM
E. African Unity Organization

A. SADC

Which of the following statements is false?

A. About 30% of Africans reside in urban areas.
B. The economies of African cities can be divided into formal and informal sectors.
C. Urban to rural migration continues to increase at a significant pace throughout the
continent
D. The SADC was asked to assist in suppressing a revolt in The Congo
E. Squatter settlements around African cities are areas of extreme poverty.

C. Urban to rural migration continues to increase at a significant pace throughout the continent

Which of the following countries is located in the Bulge of Africa?

A. Liberia
B. South Africa
C. Somalia
D. Tanganyika
E. Kenya

E. Kenya

Which of the following countries was established by former American slaves?

A. Liberia
B. Senegal
C. Ghana
D. Ivory Coast
E. Togo

B. Senegal

Which two colonial powers were principally involved in West Africa?

A. Britain and France
B. Portugal and France
C. Italy and Britain
D. U.S. and France
E. Algeria and Sudan

A. Britain and France

The most populous country in Africa, which also has significant oil supplies is:

A. Namibia
B. Mali
C. Gabon
D. Uganda
E. Nigeria

B. Mali

Nigeria’s old capital of Lagos was situated within the culture area of the people called:

A. Ndebele
B. Yoruba
C. Pygmies
D. Ibo
E. Zambians

B. Yoruba

The country that moved its capital from Lagos to the new centrally-located city of Abuja is:

A. Nigeria
B. Tanzania
C. The Congo
D. Burkina Faso
E. Ethiopia

C. The Congo

Which of the following tribal groups is not associated with Nigeria?

A. Ibo
B. Zulu
C. Yoruba
D. Hausa-Fulani
E. Fulani

A. Ibo

Which province of Nigeria attempted to secede in the 1960s?

A. Ibo
B. Biafra
C. Lagos
D. Abuja
E. Togo

A. Ibo

Which of the following statements is false?

A. Over 90 percent of Nigeria’s export revenues were derived from the sale of petroleum
and petroleum products in the 1980s.
B. Nigeria has a large Islamic population in the northern portion of the country.
C. Nigeria is now in the take-off stage of development.
D. Nigeria’s population is the largest in Subsaharan Africa.
E. Nigeria’s capital is located near the country’s center.

A. Over 90 percent of Nigeria’s export revenues were derived from the sale of petroleum and petroleum products in the 1980s.

Which of the following statements is false?

A. Most of Nigeria’s trade is with other West African countries.
B. West Africa was colonized, for the most part, by the French and the British.
C. In West Africa, the ecological belts run east-west.
D. WestAfricaisAfrica’smostpopulousregion.
E. All of the above are true.

A. Most of Nigeria’s trade is with other West African countries.

Which of the following countries maintains links with the Brazilian state of Bahia, based upon ties from slave trade times?

A. Benin
B. Liberia
C. Somalia
D. Tanganyika
E. Kenya

A. Benin

The first West African state to gain its independence, formerly called the Gold Coast, is:

A. Ghana
B. Guinea-Bissau
C. Zambia
D. Tanganyika
E. Kenya

A. Ghana

This African country is a former French colony, built a Roman Catholic basilica to rival St. Peter’s in Rome, and has recently seen a slowing of the economy.

A. Ivory Coast
B. South Africa
C. Somalia
D. Tanganyika
E. Benin

D. Tanganyika

The West African country that collapsed into chaos in the 1990s with refugees pouring into neighboring countries is:

A. Liberia
B. South Africa
C. Somalia
D. Tanganyika
E. Kenya

C. Somalia

This former French colony is currently the most successful in West Africa despite environmental problems.

A. Senegal
B. South Africa
C. Somalia
D. Tanganyika
E. Kenya

D. Tanganyika

A market that is set up only on certain days of the week is known as a ____ market.

A. Bantustan
B. condominium
C. trader
D. periodic
E. sequent occupant

A. Bantustan

Which of the following countries is not located in Equatorial Africa?

A. Gabon
B. Congo
C. Mauritania
D. Cameroon
E. Central African Republic

D. Cameroon

The largest country in Equatorial Africa is:

A. Congo
B. Cameroon
C. Central African Republic
D. The Congo
E. Equatorial Guinea

B. Cameroon

Which of the following is not a reason for internal communication problems in The Congo?

A. the Central African Mountains
B. rapids on the rivers
C. disintegrated infrastructure
D. a huge forested basin
E. all of the above are problems

A. the Central African Mountains

Civil war in which of countrys led to the change in the government of The Congo:

A. Congo
B. Cameroon
C. Central African Republic
D. Rwanda
E. Equatorial Guinea

D. Rwanda

The two groups who fought one another in the Rwandan civil war are the:

A. Ibo, Zulu
B. Zulu, Hausa
C. British, Dutch
D. Hutus, Tutsis
E. Shanti, Kabila

D. Hutus, Tutsis

The country in Equatorial Africa with significant oil supplies and an upper middle income economy is:

A. Congo
B. Cameroon
C. Central African Republic
D. Gabon
E. Equatorial Guinea

C. Central African Republic

The country in Equatorial Africa that is split into a mainland section and an island is:

A. Congo
B. Cameroon
C. Central African Republic
D. Gabon
E. Equatorial Guinea

E. Equatorial Guinea

The East African lingua franca is:

A. Dutch
B. English
C. Swahili
D. Kenyan
E. French

B. English

Which of the following countries is not located in East Africa?

A. Nigeria
B. Kenya
C. Uganda
D. Tanzania
E. Burundi

B. Kenya

The capital of Kenya, which is today marked by a modern skyscrapered CBD, is:

A. Buganda
B. Kilimanjaro
C. Nairobi
D. Kenyatta
E. Lagos

B. Kilimanjaro

Tourism is a particularly important business in:

A. Tanzania
B. Kenya
C. Uganda
D. Burkina Faso
E. Rwanda

B. Kenya

The ethnic group exerting the most control in Kenya is the:

A. Hutu
B. Kikuyu
C. Swahili
D. Tutsi
E. Bantu

B. Kikuyu

In which of the following countries did the Communist Chinese build the Tamzam Railway?

A. Sudan
B. Tanzania
C. Malawi
D. The Congo
E. Ethiopia

B. Tanzania

The population of Tanzania is:

A. concentrated totally around Dar-elderly singles-Salaam
B. spread around the periphery of the country
C. found mostly in the north near Lake Victoria
D. clustered near the border with the Sudan
E. found in the south near Moçambique

C. found mostly in the north near Lake Victoria

Which of the following statements is true?

A. Kenya followed a socialist path to development upon independence.
B. Kenya followed a capitalist path to development upon independence.
C. In the 1980s, Tanzania reversed its socialist course and announced a market oriented
economic recovery program.
D. A and C are true.
E. B and C are true.

C. In the 1980s, Tanzania reversed its socialist course and announced a market oriented economic recovery program.

Which of the following countries borders Lake Victoria?

A. Sudan
B. Uganda
C. Malawi
D. The Congo
E. Ethiopia

D. The Congo

The country in which Idi Amin ruled is:

A. Tanzania
B. Zimbabwe
C. Uganda
D. Rwanda
E. Victoria

C. Uganda

The country in which 75,000 Asians lived and which was the largest coffee producer in the British Commonwealth is:

A. Tanzania
B. Zimbabwe
C. Uganda
D. Rwanda
E. Victoria

A. Tanzania

Two countries which were originally part of German East Africa, but were given to the Belgians after World War I are:

A. Tanzania and Kenya
B. Zimbabwe and Zambia
C. Uganda and Burundi
D. Rwanda and Burundi
E. Victoria and Victor

A. Tanzania and Kenya

In Rwanda and Burundi:

A. the Tutsis, while dominant politically and economically, are in the minority
B. the Hutus make up 85-90% of the population
C. the basis for the conflict is not ethnicity, but status in society
D. in 1994, Hutu militias went on an organized campaign against the Tutsis and
collaborationist Hutus
E. all of the above are true

B. the Hutus make up 85-90% of the population

Which country lost its independence only briefly?

A. Ethiopia
B. Zimbabwe
C. Uganda
D. Rwanda
E. Victoria

B. Zimbabwe

Which country, while included in East Africa, has a somewhat different history and is not tied economically with the region?

A. Ethiopia
B. Zimbabwe
C. Uganda
D. Rwanda
E. Victoria

D. Rwanda

Which of the following countries is not located in Southern Africa?

A. Botswana
B. Cameroon
C. Zimbabwe
D. Zambia
E. Moçambique

A. Botswana

Which of the following countries is the home of the Shona and Ndebele tribes where many whites have remained even after the white minority government was replaced?

A. Botswana
B. Cameroon
C. Zimbabwe
D. Zambia
E. Moçambique

C. Zimbabwe

The continent’s richest region in terms of minerals is:

A. West Africa
B. Southern Africa
C. East Africa
D. Equatorial Africa
E. Horn of Africa

A. West Africa

A country where thousands of Cuban troops combated insurgents is:

A. Zambia
B. Malawi
C. The Congo
D. Angola
E. Ghana

A. Zambia

The great river in southern Africa is the:

A. Zambezi
B. Zimbabwe
C. Nile
D. Congo
E. Purple

B. Zimbabwe

The poorest country in southern Africa, and one of the world’s poorest states is:

A. Moçambique
B. Zimbabwe
C. Uganda
D. Rwanda
E. Victoria

B. Zimbabwe

Cabinda is a(n):

A. Exclave of Angola
B. separate country
C. dependency of South Africa
D. island that was formerly independent, but is now part of Tanzania
E. province of The Congo

A. Exclave of Angola

The Copperbelt region is a vital producing area of:
A. Zamnibia
B. Zambia
C. Zanzibar
D. Zimbabwe
E. Zululand

A. Zamnibia

The natural environment of Botswana is dominated by:

A. the mountains associated with the Great Escarpment
B. chronic water shortages
C. coastal swamps and deltas
D. tropical rainforests
E. savanna grasslands

A. the mountains associated with the Great Escarpment

The now-independent political entity that was called South West Africa is today renamed:

A. Namibia
B. Botswana
C. Western Rhodesia
D. Bophuthatswana
E. Lesotho

A. Namibia

The Caprivi Strip is part of:

A. Namibia
B. Zimbabwe
C. Uganda
D. Rwanda
E. Botswana

B. Zimbabwe

The Copperbelt, Great Dyke, and Witwatersrand are:

A. mineralized belts and mining centers for Zambia, Zimbabwe, and South Africa respectively
B. agricultural regions in Botswana, Swaziland, and Lesotho
C. three urban areas in Southern African countries showing megalopolitan growth
D. sites of ancient African (pre-European) states
E. zones of exhausted mineral deposits, now remnants of former core areas

C. three urban areas in Southern African countries showing megalopolitan growth

Which of the following was an exclave of South Africa?

A. Walvis Bay
B. Cabinda
C. Lesotho
D. Swaziland
E. None of the above

B. Cabinda

An interesting aspect of Madagascar is that:

A. the Great Rift Valley predominates in the central part of the country
B. the population is of Malay-Polynesian origin
C. it produces exceptional quantities of corn
D. the island is controlled by the South Africans who have extended apartheid to the island
E. most of the population are descendants of Ethiopians

A. the Great Rift Valley predominates in the central part of the country

The system of racial separation in the Republic of South Africa was known as:

A. Amandla
*B. Racial Separation
C. Apartheid
D. Transkei
E. Bantustans

…

People of Dutch ancestry in South Africa are called:

A. Xhosa
B. Afrikaners
C. coloureds
D. Great Trekkers
E. Transvaalers

C. coloureds

The Dutch East India Company founded:

A. Cape Town
B. Maputo
C. Xhosa
D. Rwanda
E. Namibia

A. Cape Town

The Boer War is associated with:

A. Kenya
B. South Africa
C. Boerstwana
D. Sudan
E. Nigeria

B. South Africa

The Boer War was fought between which of the following peoples?

A. Boers and the Zulus
B. Boers and the Germans
C. Boers and the British
D. Boers and the Dutch
E. the Xhosa and the Zulus

B. Boers and the Germans

The city in South Africa that has the greatest percentage of "coloureds" is:

A. Cape Town
B. Johannesburg
C. Transkei
D. Kwazulu
E. Durban

B. Johannesburg

South Africa’s "Coloured" people:

A. are exempt from the restriction of apartheid
B. are people of mixed African/white ancestry
C. rank below blacks in the national society
D. were driven out of the country in the 1950s
E. are mixtures of whites and Indians

E. are mixtures of whites and Indians

The mineral found at the confluence of the Orange and Vaal River that changed the economic geography of South Africa was:

A. gold
B. diamonds
C. copper
D. iron
E. opals

B. diamonds

Which of the following statements is false?

A. Climatically, South Africa is Africa’s only true temperate-zone country.
B. South Africa contains significant untapped petroleum reserves.
C. South Africa’s white population is larger than the white populations of all other
Subsaharan
African countries combined.
D. SouthAfricahaslargecoalreserves.
E. The Boers are now called the Afrikaners.

B. South Africa contains significant untapped petroleum reserves.

South Africa’s South Asian population is comprised of:

A. Cape Coloured
B. Durbans
C. Afrikaners
D. Zulu
E. Indians

A. Cape Coloured

About ___ percent of South Africa was set aside to become homelands.

A. 70
B. 14
C. 9
D. 5
E. 90

B. 14

The African National Congress leader is:

A. Buthelezi
B. Mandela
C. Botha
D. Zulu
E. de Klerk

A. Buthelezi

The Zulu people, led by Chief Buthelezi:

A. originally opposed the ANC-negotiated agreement for South African independence
B. were the chief negotiators with de Klerk for democracy
C. left Kenya for Tanzania when the British arrived
D. live mostly in the rural areas of Namibia
E. agreed to the new South African government when they were guaranteed that their homeland would be split into two areas so that they would have greater representation

B. were the chief negotiators with de Klerk for democracy

The South African president who began negotiations with the African National Congress is:

A. Buthelezi
B. Botha
C. Ciskei
D. Zulu
E. Tswana

C. Ciskei