multiple choice test 50 questions by April 10 at 2;30 PM

Question 1

Which of the following is NOTpart of Africa's physiographical characteristics?

Select one:

a. desert

b. tropical rainforest

c. Savanna soil

d. river basin

e. All of the above are part of Africa

Question 2

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Which of the following statement about Africa is NOT true?

Select one:

a. Africa is the cradle of humanity

b. High temperatures and humidity create breeding grounds for organisms that carry disease

c. The problem of hunger in Africa is widespread and getting worse

d. AIDS claims the largest number of victims in Sub-Saharan Africa

e. All of the above are true about Africa

Question 3

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Which of the following can be a powerful centrifugal force in Sub-Saharan African societies?

Select one:

a. agricultural economy

b. humidity

c. multilingualism

d. control of mining by Europeans

e. population increases

Question 4

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

Select one:

a. colonialism

b. slavery

c. Apartheid

d. divide and rule

e. Jim Crow

Question 5

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The Berlin Conference led to which of the following?

Select one:

a. It divided Africa into Muslim (north) and Christian (south) zones

b. It gave independence to nearly 90 percent of African countries from European colonial rule

c. the colonial powers superimposed their domains on the African continent

d. France gave up its colonial interest in Africa to Great Britain

e. Germany ended up with the largest colonial possession in Africa

Question 6

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Which of the following is primarily responsible for the shortage of food production in Subsaharan Africa?

Select one:

a. lack of moisture

b. lack of land

c. lack of farm animals

d. soil exhaustion

e. overuse of chemical fertilizer

Question 7

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The largest sector of the Subsaharan Africa's economy is:

Select one:

a. light industry

b. high tech industry

c. tourism

d. domestic service

e. farming

Question 8

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During the _______ great-power competition magnified conflicts in several Subsaharan African countries, with result that will be felt for generations.

Select one:

a. First World War

b. Second Wold War

c. Boer War

d. Cold War

e. African War

Question 9

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Which of the following is the largest oil producer in Africa?

Select one:

a. Kenya

b. Ethiopia

c. Angola

d. Nigeria

e. Tanzania

Question 10

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Which of the following is not considered a major impediment to Subsaharan Africa's material development?

Select one:

a. clan conflicts

b. high population concentration

c. widespread of disease

d. large debts owed to foreign banks

e. legacies of Western imperialism

Question 11

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Which of the following countries is at the heart of Mesopotamia?

Select one:

a. Saudi Arabia

b. Iraq

c. Egypt

d. Libya

e. Afghanistan

Question 12

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Which of the following was NOT a potent reason for decline and decay of Mesopotamian civilization?

Select one:

a. over population

b. human destruction of the natural vegetation

c. reduced rainfall

d. desertification

e. All of the above possibly contributed to decline and decay of Mesopotamian civilization.

Question 13

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Which of the following is not part of Islam's Five Pillars?

Select one:

a. alms giving

b. day-time fasting during the month of Ramadan

c. pilgrimage to Mecca

d. holy war against non-Muslims of the world

e. pray five times everyday

Question 14

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Islamic fundamentalism emphasizes the most:

Select one:

a. building of a strong military forces

b. inviting foreign investments

c. eliminating western companies from Islamic countries

d. separation of church and state

e. building society according to the teachings of Koran

Question 15

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Which of the following regions is virtually untouched by Islam?

Select one:

a. East Africa

b. Eastern Europe

c. Southwest Asia

d. North Africa

e. Islam is present in all of the above regions

Question 16

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All of the following are impacts of the oil industry in Southwest Asia/North Africa EXCEPT,

Select one:

a. rapid disappearance of farmland and the agricultural economy land due to oil drilling

b. increasing incomes for some

c. importation of foreign workers

d. importation of foreign goods with oil revenues

e. Some countries have achieved modernization relying on oil revenues

Question 17

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What is the name of the political institution where religious clerics exercise supreme authority, such as Iran?

Select one:

a. monarchy

b. military Dictatorship

c. theocracy

d. democracy

e. All of the above are present in Southwest Asia

Question 18

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Which of the following is not related to the Arab-Israeli conflict?

Select one:

a. Six-Day War

b. Yum Kippur War

c. Israeli invasion of Lebanon

d. Israeli occupation of Golan Height

e. All of the above are related to the Arab-Israeli conflict

Question 19

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Among the following group of nations, which is the largest oil producer?

Select one:

a. Egypt

b. Syria

c. Turkey

d. Yemen

e. Iran

Question 20

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Which of the following events in 1948 displaced 2 million Palestinians from their homeland?

Select one:

a. The War between Palestinians and Jordanians

b. Campaign of ethnic cleansing in Syria

c. The Lebanese Civil War

d. The British colonization of Palestine

e. The creation of the State of Israel

Question 21

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Which of the following is home to the ancient Egyptian civilization?

Select one:

a. Euphrates River

b. Red Sea

c. Nile River

d. Suez Canal

e. Tigris River

Question 22

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85% of Muslims are

Select one:

a. Sunni

b. Imams

c. Shi'ites

d. Mullah

e. Sharia

Question 23

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Which of the following had experienced an Islamic revolution and is currently an official Islamic republic?

Select one:

a. Saudi Arabia

b. Jordan

c. Iran

d. Syria

e. Egypt

Question 24

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Which of the following statements is true?

Select one:

a. Israel is ruled by Orthodox Rabbis

b. Israel is considered an underdeveloped economy

c. Israel is a democracy with strong western ties.

d. Israel is a landlocked country

e. Israel is a large oil producer

Question 25

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Which of the following does not lie in the Fertile Crescent?

Select one:

a. Syria

b. Oman

c. Iraq

d. Lebanon

e. Ancient Babylonia

Question 26

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Europeans colonizers took control of much of Subsaharan Africa against the African belief that their land belonged to their ancestors, the living, and the yet-unborn. Europeans saw unclaimed space and felt justified in claiming it. This process is known as

Select one:

a. land exploitation

b. land grab

c. land alienation

d. land expropriation

e. land mismanagement

Question 27

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OPEC is a(n)

Select one:

a. oil cartel

b. Organization of countries in Arabian Peninsular

c. common market for North African countries

d. association of Islamic oil producers

e. Islamic fundamentalist group

Question 28

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Which of the following is largest in terms of territorial size?

Select one:

a. Saudi Arabia

b. Iraq

c. Yemen

d. Oman

e. Turkey

Question 29

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Which of the following countries is most often viewed as the leader of the Arab world?

Select one:

a. Iran

b. Egypt

c. Turkey

d. Libya

e. Jordan

Question 30

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Culturally speaking, which of the following is considered the most-Europeanized country in Southwest Asia?

Select one:

a. Iran

b. Algeria

c. Libya

d. Turkey

e. Tunisia

Question 31

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The western North African countries of Algeria, Tunisia, and Morocco are called:

Select one:

a. the Maghreb

b. African Transition Zone

c. the Middle East

d. the Sahel

e. the Levant

Question 32

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Which of the following suffered a prolonged civil war, which began in the 1970s, that devastated the country and its people?

Select one:

a. Israel

b. Libya

c. Lebanon

d. Syria

e. Iraq

Question 33

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Until the 1980s, the most of Turkestan was controlled by

Select one:

a. Turkey

b. Iran

c. The Soviet Union

d. Great Britain

e. France

Question 34

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Which of the following countries in Turkestan is politically unstable at this point?

Select one:

a. Kazakhstan

b. Uzbekistan

c. Kyrgyzstan

d. Turkmenistan

e. Afghanistan

Question 35

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The United Stated justified its invasion of Iraq by claiming that

Select one:

a. Iraq will declare war on Israel

b. Iraq is destabilizing the global oil market

c. Iraq has weapons of mass destruction

d. Iraq is behind the 9/11 attacks

e. Iraq is killing its Kurdish minority

Question 36

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In general, soils in Africa:

Select one:

a. are most fertile near the Sahara desert

b. are best near the equator

c. are leached and thus not very fertile

d. is virtually impossible for farming

e. the most fertile in the world but mismanaged

Question 37

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

Select one:

a. Ghana

b. Congo

c. Zimbabwe

d. Mali

e. All of the above had great civilizations

Question 38

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The authors of the textbook write the following about the Atlantic slave trade: “Europeans, Arabs, and collaborating Africans ravaged the [African] continent, forcing perhaps as many as _______ million persons away from their homelands in bondage.” Fill the blank.

Select one:

a. 1

b. 5

c. 10

d. 20

e. 30

Question 39

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

Select one:

a. England

b. France

c. Germany

d. Belgium

e. All of the above countries had colonies in Africa

Question 40

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

Select one:

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

Question 41

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Afrikaner is a(n):

Select one:

a. person of Dutch ancestry in South Africa

b. language subfamily in southern Africa

c. form of English spoken in Kenya

d. language in the Niger-Congo language subfamily

e. offspring of union between white European and black African

Question 42

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Almost all African countries are

Select one:

a. nation states

b. plural societies

c. democratic

d. religiously united

e. monarchies

Question 43

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

Select one:

a. Liberia

b. Senegal

c. Ghana

d. Ivory Coast

e. Togo

Question 44

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Which of the following statements is false?

Select one:

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's has had a serious of dictatorial and inefficient governments

d. Nigeria's is not in the take-off stage of development

e. Nigeria's population is the largest in Subsaharan Africa

Question 45

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Which of the following is primary reason for internal communication problems in some of Sub-Saharan African countries?

Select one:

a. Lack of central government

b. There is no telecommunication system in Africa

c. There is no dependable airport in Sub-Saharan Africa

d. disintegrated infrastructure

e. All of the above are reasons for internal communication problems in many African countries.

Question 46

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Which of the following is the largest language family in sub-Saharan Africa?

Select one:

a. Nilo-Saharan Family

b. Khoisan Family

c. Niger-Congo Family

d. Indo-European Family

e. Malay-Polynesian Family

Question 47

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The African continent's richest region in terms of minerals is:

Select one:

a. West Africa

b. Southern Africa

c. East Africa

d. Equatorial Africa

e. Madagascar

Question 48

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

Select one:

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

Question 49

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Sub-Saharan Africa's debt crisis is a product of

Select one:

a. A too rapid economic development that requires a huge pool of capital

b. refusal of western banks to lend to African countries

c. discriminatory police of western banks that favored east Africa over west Africa

d. demand by western banks of too much collateral for their loan to African countries

e. unsupportive loans made by western banks and mismanagement of the fund by African governments

Question 50

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South Africa's South Asian population is comprised of

Select one:

a. Cape Coloured

b. Dubans

c. Afrikaners

d. Zulu

e. Indians