Africa History Quiz

Which two countries had the GREATEST number of colonies in Africa in the late 1800s?

• China and Japan

• Spain and Portugal

• Great Britain and France

• Great Britain and the United States

What region of the world became the MAIN focus of imperialistic powers during the Age of Imperialism?

• Africa

• Asia

• the Caribbean

• the South Pacific

During the 1990s, international pressure for a regime change in South Africa took the form of

• military invasion.

• trade embargoes

• targeted air strikes.

• peacekeeping missions.

In colonial South Africa, who was allowed to vote?

• Indians only

• white people only

• native Africans only

• mixed-race people only

By what means did Nigeria gain independence from Great Britain?

• a bloody rebellion modeled on the Mau Mau Uprising

• political pressure and largely peaceful negotiations

• a series of fasts and the marshaling of world opinion

• a British grant of independence at the end of World War II

Boundaries established by European governments that placed competing ethnic groups within the same country in Africa led to

• economic prosperity

• rapid democratization.

• the outbreak of civil wars.

• widespread industrialization.

After Nelson Mandela was freed from prison in 1990, he and President F. W. de Klerk

• became locked in a struggle for control of the country.

• presented competing arguments to the United Nations

• developed a two-state solution to South Africa's problems.

• worked together on rewriting the South African constitution.

South African nationalists fought largely against

• the apartheid government in South Africa.

• the influence of Soviet communism in Africa

• the influence of the US government in Africa.

• the mistreatment of Afrikaners in South Africa.

Jomo Kenyatta inspired in Kenyans a sense of nationalism and a drive for

• the right to self-government and independence.

• increased territory and a leadership role in African politics

• control over neighboring territory taken from them by Europeans.

• the creation of the African Union to solve African problems internally.

After its political system stabilized, the South African government was able to dedicate its resources to

• reducing the spread of HIV/AIDS in the country

• promoting the growth of the domestic car industry.

• combating the spread of the Ebola virus in the country

• creating a modern nuclear weapons and energy program.