World Geography Eastern Hemisphere Chapter 13

The East African country of Rwanda is landlocked.

• True

• False

The Nile River has two sets of headwaters: the Blue Nile and the White Nile.

• True

• False

Well-known wildlife reserves are located on the Sudanese Plain, an area of tropical grasslands larger than the state of Connecticut.

• True

• False

Even before the 1800s, Europeans knew a great deal about Africa.

• True

• False

Folktales and fables are part of East Africa's oral tradition.

• True

• False

Ethnic group that dominated the Rwandan government in the 1990s

• Ngugi wa Thiong'o

• hydroelectric power

• Hutu

• clan

• Jomo Kenyatta

First prime minister of independent Kenya

• Ngugi wa Thiong'o

• hydroelectric power

• Hutu

• clan

• Jomo Kenyatta

leading East African novelist who wrote Weep Not, Child

• Ngugi wa Thiong'o

• hydroelectric power

• Hutu

• clan

• Jomo Denyatta

group of related people descended from the same ancestor

• Ngugi wa Thiong'o

• hudroelectric power

• Hutu

• clan

• Jomo Kenyatta

type of energy produced through the use of falling water

• Ngugi wa Thiong'o

• hydroelectric power

• Hutu

• clan

• Jomo Kenyatta