Deck 5: Sub-Saharan Africa

Question 1

The Savanna Grasslands of Africa have ________.

A) a short dry season
B) a long dry season
C) a long wet season
D) precipitation for half of the year; the rest of the year is a drought
E) none of the above

Answer 1

B

Question 2

Which one of the following diseases is caused by the tsetse fly?

A) malaria
B) sleeping sickness
C) ebola fever
D) bilharzia
E) none of the above

Answer 2

B

Question 3

Benin and this modern country were once known as the "Slave Coast."

A) Nigeria
B) Ghana
C) Senegal
D) Mali
E) none of the above

Answer 3

A

Question 4

Victoria Falls is located on the:

A) Nile River
B) Congo River
C) Zambezi River
D) Niger River
E) none of the above

Question 5

In Zimbabwe, half the GNP is associated with the:

A) informal economy
B) tertiary economy
C) manufacturing economy
D) quinary economy
E) none of the above

Question 6

What was the purpose of the South African "Pass Law"?

A) control public movements of non-whites
B) eliminate further entry of South Asians into the country
C) prevent interracial marriage
D) register non-whites to vote in national elections
E) none of the above

Question 7

________ is famous for diamonds in Sub-Saharan Africa.

A) Nigeria
B) South Africa
C) Zimbabwe
D) Kenya
E) none of the above

Question 8

The Boers were southern African colonists from which European nation?

A) Great Britain
B) France
C) Netherlands
D) Belgium
E) none of the above

Question 9

After World War I, who lost their colonies in Africa?

A) Great Britain
B) Germany
C) France
D) Portugal
E) none of the above

Question 10

The planting of several crops together is called:

A) bush fallow
B) transhumance
C) shifting cultivation
D) slash-and-burn
E) intercropping

Question 11

Which country was the first to gain independence in the 1950s?

A) Ghana
B) Kenya
C) Central African Republic
D) Botswana
E) Mozambique

Question 12

________ is a modification of shifting cultivation where crops are rotated around a village, fallow periods are shorter and soil may be enriched through household waste.

A) Bush fallow
B) Slash and burn
C) Pastoralism
D) Sedentary farming
E) none of the above

Question 13

The highlands in this modern country were one of the centers of domestication of plants and animals in Sub-Saharan Africa.

A) Sudan
B) Egypt
C) Ethiopia
D) South Africa
E) none of the above

Question 14

The Unilateral Declaration of Independence was created in opposition to proposals for black majority rule in the country now known as ________.

A) South Africa
B) Kenya
C) Zimbabwe
D) Botswana
E) none of the above

Question 15

The Harmattan is a hot, dry wind that blows out of the ________.

A) interior of Africa
B) Indian Ocean
C) Atlantic Ocean
D) Mediterranean
E) none of the above

Question 16

The parasite bilharzia causes ________.

A) Schistosomiasis
B) Tripansosmiasis
C) Onchocerciasis
D) sleeping sickness
E) none of the above

Question 17

Which colonial power's policy was based on assimilation of native peoples?

A) Belgian
B) French
C) Portuguese
D) Spain
E) none of the above

Question 18

Forty percent of the European Union's imports of fresh vegetables come from this country:

A) Egypt
B) Kenya
C) Tanzania
D) Malawi
E) Nigeria

Question 19

The highest rates of AIDS infection are in ________.

A) Northern Africa
B) Southern Africa
C) Western Africa
D) Eastern Africa
E) none of the above

Question 20

Petroleum is the major mineral export from this country.

A) Nigeria
B) South Africa
C) Zimbabwe
D) Democratic Republic of the Congo
E) Kenya

Question 21

This river system in southern Africa drains into an inland delta.

A) Nile
B) Zambezi
C) Niger
D) Congo
E) Okavango

Question 22

This is the largest country in population in Africa.

A) Nigeria
B) South Africa
C) Sudan
D) Democratic Republic of the Congo
E) Ghana

Question 23

The idea of ujamaa promoted by Julius Nyerere meant:

A) African socialism based on traditional values of communal ownership
B) adoption of Marxist principles
C) passive resistance to British control of tribal lands
D) the end of apartheid
E) none of these

Question 24

This is the highest mountain on the African continent.

A) Kilimanjaro
B) Kenya
C) Cameroon
D) Drakensberg
E) Okavangu

Question 25

The best estimate of the number of languages spoken in Sub-Saharan Africa is:

A) 10
B) 200 to 300
C) less than 200
D) about 100
E) over 800

Question 26

What was the purpose of the "Berlin Conference"?

A) divide Africa between the major European colonial powers
B) lay the groundwork for future independence of the African colonies
C) reassign German territories to the victors of WW I
D) create development plans for newly independent African countries
E) none of these

Question 27

This is the largest city on the African continent.

A) Nairobi
B) Abidjan
C) Johannesburg
D) Lagos
E) Kinshasa

Question 28

This is the major river system in West Africa.

A) Niger
B) Congo
C) Zambezi
D) Nile
E) Okavango

Question 29

This is the major river system in Central Africa.

A) Niger
B) Zambezi
C) Congo
D) Nile
E) Okavango

Question 30

This is the largest island near Africa.

A) Madagascar
B) Mauritius
C) Sao Tome
D) Cape Verde
E) Mozambique

Question 31

The total GNP for Sub-Saharan Africa in 2002 was what percentage of the global total?

A) 20%
B) 10%
C) 1%
D) 27%
E) 33%

Question 32

This is the largest Christian denomination in Sub-Saharan Africa.

A) Roman Catholicism
B) Dutch Calvinism
C) Anglicanism
D) Amharic Church
E) none of these

Question 33

About this percent of Africa is still forested.

A) 40%
B) 50%
C) 70%
D) 20%
E) virtually none

Question 34

Which of the following is true of Sub-Saharan Africa?

A) highest average birth rates in the world
B) lower population density than the global average
C) most countries are 40% to 50% under 15 years of age
D) All of these are true.
E) None of these are true.

Question 35

Zambia is most noted for exports of:

A) copper
B) diamonds
C) petroleum
D) uranium
E) cacao

Question 36

The ethnic conflict between the Hutus and the Tutsis in the early 1990s was mostly in the countries of:

A) Rwanda and Burundi
B) Kenya and Tanzania
C) Namibia and Botswana
D) Ethiopia and Somalia
E) Liberia and Sierra Leone

Question 37

These two countries ended the colonial period with civil wars between Soviet-supported Marxist forces and U.S.-supported pro-Western forces.

A) Angola and Mozambique
B) Namibia and Botswana
C) Rwanda and Burundi
D) Nigeria and Biafra
E) Ghana and Cote D'Ivoire

Question 38

The total population of Sub-Saharan Africa is estimated to reach approximately ________ by 2010.

A) 1 billion
B) 200 million
C) 400 million
D) 40 million
E) 800 million

Question 39

This early Ethiopian society adopted Christianity around 500 A.D.

A) Aksum
B) Mali
C) Ghana
D) Songhai
E) Kinte

Question 40

The settlement of Madagascar began about 500 A.D. with the arrival of people from this region.

A) present day Indonesia
B) West Africa
C) Southern Africa
D) present day India
E) the Americas

Question 41

Fertility rates tend to be higher in African cities than in rural areas.

Question 42

The Great Rift Valley is located in:

A) Central Africa
B) Southern Africa
C) Northern Africa
D) Western Africa
E) Eastern Africa

Question 43

Large-scale segregation was established in the Republic of South Africa through the creation of ________.

A) reservations
B) ghettos
C) homelands
D) ethnoburbs
E) none of the above

Question 44

You can find a Mediterranean climate in ________.

A) Zimbabwe
B) Somalia
C) Republic of South Africa
D) Chad
E) Gabon

Question 45

Dependency theorists believe the solution to the problems in Sub-Saharan countries is to:

A) create local capacity to produce goods
B) increase imports
C) increase military spending
D) all of the above
E) none of the above

Question 46

African countries have seen a steady decline in the price for their raw materials exports over the last decades.

Question 47

"Carrying Capacity" is the measurement of the ability of land to support its population.

Question 48

The Sahel region of West Africa borders the Sahara Desert and has highly variable rainfall and a human population dependent on pastoralism.

Question 49

The main conflict in Zimbabwe is based in:

A) white settlers owning the majority of the country's farmland
B) language differences among the major ethnicities
C) rivalries between Muslims and Christians
D) separatist movements in the eastern regions
E) the presence of foreign guest workers

Question 50

The last minority leader of the Republic of South Africa was:

A) Nelson Mandela
B) William de Klerk
C) William Livingstone
D) Roger Stanley
E) none of the above

Question 51

The annual overall population growth rate for Sub-Saharan Africa is:

A) )6%
B) 5%
C) 1.2%
D) 2%
E) 14%

Question 52

Uganda and Senegal have promoted aggressive and successful AIDS education and prevention campaigns and have cut infection rates in half.

Question 53

African women with more education tend to have smaller families than those women with less education.

Question 54

During the colonial period of Africa, why were Europeans reluctant to move into the interior of Africa?

A) the interior lacked lucrative resources for Europeans to exploit
B) the Europeans were only interested in controlling the coastal areas
C) the fear of diseases for which they had no natural immunity
D) all of the above
E) none of the above

Question 55

Christians slightly outnumber Muslims in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Question 56

The foreign debt of Sub-Saharan Africa is 1/3 that of Latin America and Asia.

Question 57

Most people in Sub-Saharan Africa still practice pre-Christian, pre-Muslim religions.

Question 58

The civil war in the late 1990s in Liberia spread to the neighboring country of:

A) Ghana
B) Gabon
C) Nigeria
D) Sierra Leone
E) Guinea

Question 59

One aspect of structural adjustment programs is usually to remove tariffs and other trade barriers.

Question 60

The Congo basin hosts the ________ largest rainforest in the world.

A) first
B) second
C) third
D) fourth
E) fifth

Question 61

Match each country with its capital.

A) Harare
B) Nairobi
C) Nouakchott
D) Niamey
E) Kampala
F) Kigali
G) Antananarivo
H) Lusaka
I) Accra
J) Maseru
Zambia

Question 62

Discuss AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa. Where are the so-called "AIDS belts" located? Where is the "highway of death"? Approximately how many people have been infected by this disease? What, if anything, has been done to control the spread of AIDS?

Question 63

Why are there so many refugees in Sub-Saharan Africa? Which subregion of Sub-Saharan Africa has the lowest number of refugees? Which subregion of Sub-Saharan Africa has the highest?

Question 64

Match each country with its capital.

A) Harare
B) Nairobi
C) Nouakchott
D) Niamey
E) Kampala
F) Kigali
G) Antananarivo
H) Lusaka
I) Accra
J) Maseru
Rwanda

Question 65

Match each country with its capital.

A) Harare
B) Nairobi
C) Nouakchott
D) Niamey
E) Kampala
F) Kigali
G) Antananarivo
H) Lusaka
I) Accra
J) Maseru
Madagascar

Question 66

How did structural adjustment programs and debt relief impact Sub-Saharan Africa in the late 1990s?

Question 67

Match each country with its capital.

A) Harare
B) Nairobi
C) Nouakchott
D) Niamey
E) Kampala
F) Kigali
G) Antananarivo
H) Lusaka
I) Accra
J) Maseru
Zimbabwe

Question 68

How did the processes of colonial rule differ among the colonial powers in Sub-Saharan Africa?

Question 69

Match each country with its capital.

A) Harare
B) Nairobi
C) Nouakchott
D) Niamey
E) Kampala
F) Kigali
G) Antananarivo
H) Lusaka
I) Accra
J) Maseru
Lesotho

Question 70

What are the key differences between dependency theory and modernization theory as they apply to Sub-Saharan Africa? How has the concept of environmental determinism been applied to explain Sub-Saharan Africa's underdevelopment?

Question 71

The ethnic divisions between the Tutsi and Hutu were created or exacerbated by Belgian colonists, who gave the Tutsis control over the Hutus.

Question 72

Match each country with its capital.

A) Harare
B) Nairobi
C) Nouakchott
D) Niamey
E) Kampala
F) Kigali
G) Antananarivo
H) Lusaka
I) Accra
J) Maseru
Mauritania

Question 73

A system of seasonal herd movements is called transhumance.

Question 74

Match each country with its capital.

A) Harare
B) Nairobi
C) Nouakchott
D) Niamey
E) Kampala
F) Kigali
G) Antananarivo
H) Lusaka
I) Accra
J) Maseru
Ghana

Question 75

Match each country with its capital.

A) Harare
B) Nairobi
C) Nouakchott
D) Niamey
E) Kampala
F) Kigali
G) Antananarivo
H) Lusaka
I) Accra
J) Maseru
Niger

Question 76

Match each country with its capital.

A) Harare
B) Nairobi
C) Nouakchott
D) Niamey
E) Kampala
F) Kigali
G) Antananarivo
H) Lusaka
I) Accra
J) Maseru
Uganda

Question 77

Match each country with its capital.

A) Harare
B) Nairobi
C) Nouakchott
D) Niamey
E) Kampala
F) Kigali
G) Antananarivo
H) Lusaka
I) Accra
J) Maseru
Kenya

Question 78

Swahili is an example of a lingua franca.

Question 79

Africa is mainly a plateau continent.

Question 80

The discovery of quinine partly controlled bilharziasis.