Africa Quiz 2

What physical feature is highlighted?

• Zambezi River
• Congo Basin
• Sahara Desert
• Nile River

Largest sand desert in the world

• Sahara

• Kalahari

• Kilimanjaro

• Sahel

A direct result of the European colonization of Africa is...

• Large urban cities

• Civil war/ instabilities

• Equal distribution of wealth

• Industrialized countries

European imperialists redrew the map of Africa with little regard for

• trade agreements
• ethnic boundaries
• mining rights
• the slave trade

Province in Western Sudan that is currently the scene of a genocide carried out by the Janjaweed group

• Genocide
• Darfur
• Hutus
• Tutsis

The genocide in Rwanda resulted from a long conflict between

• Christians and Muslims
• an ethnic majority and an ethnic minority
• supporters of the Soviet Union and supporters of the United States 
• white colonists and the black majority

Nelson Mandela won the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to

• fight the AIDS epidemic
• combat terrorism
• relieve the debt crisis
• end racial segregation

Which environmental problem faces many African nations today?

• apartheid
• desertification
• desegregation
• debt

How has the history of Sub-Saharan Africa contributed to political problems in the region?

• WWII left many nations recovering from damage.
• The UN is no longer providing aid to the region.
• The end of European colonization left many nations struggling to form governments of their own.
• Migration has caused conflicts in the region.

Which term is defined as the deliberate and systematic destruction of an ethnic, racial, religious, or national group?

• Colonization
• Genocide
• Imperialism
• Regicide