Deck 8: The Subsaharan African Realm

Question 1

Before independence,the modern state of DRCongo was a colony of ______________.

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

Answer 1

D

Question 2

The deadliest disease in Subsaharan Africa is _____.

A) HIV/AIDS
B) malaria
C) sleeping sickness
D) hepatitis
E) Ebola

Answer 2

B

Question 3

The primary source areas for slaves during the slave trade era were ______ and ______ Africa.

A) West; Southern
B) West; East
C) Equatorial; Southern
D) North; West
E) East; Equatorial

Answer 3

A

Question 4

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

A) vector
B) globular diffusion
C) pandemic
D) endemic
E) epidemic

Question 5

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

A) separate development
B) Pangaea
C) land alienation
D) continentality
E) apartheid

Question 6

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

A) Senegal
B) Togo
C) Somalia
D) Gambia
E) Liberia

Question 7

The rifts shown on the map in Figure 7-2 are found predominantly near this feature:

A) the Niger River
B) Lake Victoria
C) the Namib Desert
D) the Kalahari Basin
E) the Cape of Good Hope

Question 8

Which country has the largest population in Africa?

A) DRCongo
B) Nigeria
C) Kenya
D) Ghana 
E) South Africa

Question 9

Based on the maps shown in Figure 7-7,which country nearly created a total north-south ("Cape-to-Cairo") axis of control in colonial Subsaharan Africa?

A) France
B) Great Britain
C) Belgium
D) Portugal
E) Spain

Question 10

Which of the following associations is INCORRECT?

A) Niger River-Mali
B) Congo River-DRCongo
C) Zambezi River-Zambia
D) White Nile River-South Sudan
E) Orange River-Nigeria

Question 11

According to Figure 7-6,the largest proportion of the West African slave trade went to ___________________.

A) North America
B) the British Caribbean Islands
C) the French Caribbean Islands
D) Brazil
E) the Arabian Peninsula

Question 12

Historically West Africa shows a high degree of regional complementarity between ____________.

A) Islamic and African languages
B) French and British colonies
C) former West Africa and East Africa
D) peoples in the east and peoples in the west
E) peoples of the tropical forest and peoples of the dry interior

Question 13

Of the following,which European country was the last to give up its African colonies?

A) Italy
B) Germany
C) the Netherlands
D) Belgium
E) Portugal

Question 14

Which of the following is a lingua franca for much of eastern Africa?

A) Bantu
B) Kalahari
C) Swahili
D) Sharia
E) English

Question 15

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

A) Ivory Coast
B) Chad
C) Ghana
D) Senegal
E) Burkina Faso

Question 16

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

A) Zimbabwe
B) Zambia
C) Kenya
D) Ethiopia
E) Malawi

Question 17

Which two colonial powers dominated West Africa?

A) Britain and France
B) Portugal and Spain
C) Germany and Britain
D) the United States and France
E) Belgium and the Netherlands

Question 18

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) the time period farmers contractually own land
E) a form of subsistence farming

Question 19

The first Europeans to develop trading relationships with West Africa were the

A) Spanish
B) French
C) English
D) Dutch
E) Portuguese

Question 20

Farmers in Subsaharan Africa today are greatly assisted by the advent of _______.

A) Green Revolution crop varieties
B) women more engaged in farming
C) free chemical fertilizers
D) mobile telephone systems
E) access to better, foreign-owned land

Question 21

Nigeria's old capital of Lagos was situated within the culture area of the people known as the_______________.

A) Zulu
B) Yoruba
C) Boers
D) Ibo
E) Hausa

Question 22

Dar-es-Salaam is the capital of _____________.

A) Saudi Arabia
B) Tanzania
C) Kenya
D) Somalia
E) Ethiopia

Question 23

This West African country borders Liberia,is a former French colony,and built a Roman Catholic basilica in Yamoussoukro to rival St.Peter's in Rome:

A) Senegal
B) Sierra Leone
C) Niger
D) Guinea
E) Ivory Coast

Question 24

The capital of DRCongo is ____________.

A) Nairobi
B) Lagos
C) Brazzaville
D) Kinshasa
E) Dakar

Question 25

Two countries that were originally part of German East Africa but were reassigned to the Belgians after World War I are ___________.

A) Tanzania and Kenya
B) Zimbabwe and Zambia
C) Zanzibar and Madagascar
D) Rwanda and Burundi
E) Congo and DRCongo

Question 26

Rwanda and Burundi ______________.

A) have both driven out their Hutu populations
B) are Subsaharan Africa's most densely populated countries
C) were former British colonies
D) both border Lake Victoria
E) now constitute the newly-formed country of Rwundi

Question 27

Tourism,once a particularly important business in _______________,struggles to remain viable in the face of numerous challenges:

A) Liberia
B) Kenya
C) Uganda
D) Egypt
E) Nigeria

Question 28

The country in Equatorial Africa with significant oil supplies and the only coastal capital is _______.

A) Congo
B) Cameroon
C) Central African Republic
D) Gabon
E) Angola

Question 29

The ethnic group exerting the greatest political influence in Kenya is the________________.

A) Hutu
B) Kikuyu
C) Swahili
D) Tutsi
E) Xhosa

Question 30

Which of the following declared itself independent in 1990s and yet remains part of the failed state of Somalia?

A) Somaliland
B) Puntland
C) Mogadishu
D) Ogadenland
E) the tip of the African Horn

Question 31

The country that moved its capital from Lagos to the more centrally-located city of Abuja is ____________.

A) Nigeria
B) Tanzania
C) DRCongo
D) Niger
E) Ethiopia

Question 32

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

A) Gabon
B) Congo
C) Ivory Coast
D) Cameroon
E) Central African Republic

Question 33

The first West African state to gain its independence,formerly known as the Gold Coast,is __________.

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

Question 34

The two peoples who fought each other in the Rwandan civil war are the __________.

A) Xhosa and Yoruba
B) Muslims and Christians
C) Boers and Afrikaners
D) Hutus and Tutsis
E) Rwandans and Burundians

Question 35

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

A) Gambia
B) Guinea
C) Guinea-Bissau
D) Ghana
E) Liberia

Question 36

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

A) South Sudan
B) Mali
C) Niger
D) Nigeria
E) Ethiopia

Question 37

According to Figure 7-18,which country does NOT contain oil reserves?

A) Nigeria
B) Chad
C) South Sudan
D) Central African Republic
E) Gabon

Question 38

Which of the following countries borders Lake Victoria?

A) South Sudan
B) Uganda
C) Malawi
D) DRCongo
E) Ethiopia

Question 39

This small country gains much of its importance because of its location on the Bab-el- Mandeb Strait at the mouth of the Red Sea:

A) Ethiopia
B) Swaziland
C) Oman
D) Uganda
E) Djibouti

Question 40

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

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

Question 41

The great river of Southern Africa is the ______________.

A) Zambezi
B) Zimbabwe
C) Niger
D) Congo
E) Victoria

Question 42

Zambia,Sierra Leone,and Malawi were all British colonies.

Question 43

The southern part of Subsaharan Africa is more Islamic than the north.

Question 44

The West African savanna states benefited from complementarity between the peoples of the forests and the peoples of the dry grasslands to the north.

Question 45

The now-independent country that once was a German colony named South West Africa is _____________.

A) Namibia
B) Botswana
C) Malawi
D) Tanzania
E) Togo

Question 46

The Great Bantu Migration spread from north to south.

Question 47

Namibia is a former colony of which European nation?

A) Great Britain
B) France
C) Portugal
D) Germany
E) Belgium

Question 48

People of Dutch ancestry in South Africa are called ______________.

A) Highveld Hollanders
B) Afrikaners
C) Cape Boers
D) Great Trekkers
E) the Transylvania

Question 49

A unique aspect of Madagascar is that _______________

A) the Great Rift Valley originates in the central part of the country
B) the population is of Malay origin
C) it produces exceptional quantities of salt
D) the island is controlled by South Africa whose apartheid system still prevails there
E) most of the population is of East African ancestry

Question 50

Which of the following countries is the home of the Shona and Ndebele tribes where whites have been expelled by government-backed squatters seeking their land?

A) Botswana
B) Cameroon
C) Zimbabwe
D) Zambia
E) Tanzania

Question 51

The natural environment of Botswana is dominated by ____________.

A) mountains associated with the Great Escarpment
B) the Kalahari Desert
C) coastal swamps and deltas
D) tropical rainforest
E) the inland delta of the Niger River

Question 52

Ivory Coast and Ghana were both French colonies.

Question 53

The upper basin of the Niger River has been an area of far greater cultural development over time than its coastal delta region.

Question 54

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

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

Question 55

The Berlin Conference took place immediately after World War I and was attended by colonial powers interested in giving independence to their African dependencies.

Question 56

The figure below shows that Africa's ethnic territories coincide fairly well with its political boundary framework.

Question 57

A lack of writing cultures resulted in a largely inaccurate record of pre-colonial African history.

Question 58

The Kalahari Desert is found in the central part of DRCongo.

Question 59

The Boer War took place in ____________.

A) Burkina Faso
B) South Africa
C) the Netherlands
D) East Africa
E) Nigeria

Question 60

The supercontinent,Pangaea,at one time joined together what is now Africa,South America,Antarctica,Australia,Madagascar,and India.

Question 61

Senegal was part of France's West African empire.

Question 62

Senegal is a country in the Horn of Africa.

Question 63

Given the importance of subsistence farming in this realm,the Green Revolution has had great impact here.

Question 64

Whereas West Africa's environmental zones are aligned in east-west belts,most of its states are oriented in a north-south direction.

Question 65

Tanzania is East Africa's largest country in territorial as well as demographic terms,but it never had dominant minorities in the manner of Kenya.

Question 66

A regional outbreak of a disease is known as an epidemic.

Question 67

Ghana was formerly known as the Gold Coast.

Question 68

Africa's distributions of climate and vegetation are almost symmetrical about the equator.

Question 69

According to Figure 7-9,African sleeping sickness is a problem that limits cattle production in the country of South Africa.

Question 70

The Yoruba are the dominant ethnic group in DRCongo.

Question 71

The name Tanzania derives from the merger of Tanganyika and Zanzibar.

Question 72

Most African families still depend on subsistence agriculture.

Question 73

Sierra Leone was settled by former American slaves.

Question 74

African sleeping sickness is transmitted by the tsetse fly.

Question 75

West Africa is Subsaharan Africa's most populous region.

Question 76

Equatorial Africa is the most developed region of the realm.

Question 77

The Hutus and Tutsis fought for control of Uganda.

Question 78

The bulk of West Africa's population is concentrated in the region's north.

Question 79

Nigeria is a major oil producer.

Question 80

Congo,Central African Republic,Uganda,and Equatorial Guinea are all located in Equatorial Africa.