Africa Quiz Review

Approximately how many languages are spoken across Africa?

• 20

• 200

• 2,000

• 20,000

Who wrote a satirical letter to the editor of Granta to bring attention to the prevalence of African stereotypes?

• Cecil Rhodes

• Mansa Musa

• Binyavanga Wainaina

• Shaka Zulu

Social organization marked by the supremacy of the father

• Patriarchal

• Patrilineal

• Matriarchal

• Matrilineal

Form of marriage where a person has one spouse

• Monogamy

• Polygamy

• Polyandry

• Monogyny

This African Civilization was at its height from roughly the 4th century BCE through the first century CE. Today it is a tourist site because of claims related to the Ark of the Covenant.

• Aksum

• Songhai

• Timbuktu

• Kongo

These TWO commodities were traded across the Sahara Desert, and contributed to the wealth of Western African Empires, like Timbuktu.

• Silver

• Salt

• Diamonds

• Gold

What African religion espouses belief in one supreme being and a world of good and bad spirits?

• Christianity

• Animism

• Islam

• Buddhism

The movement to end slavery is

• abolition

• imperialism

• diaspora

• Animism

The policy of extending the power of a nation through territorial conquest is

• Animism

• Imperialism

• Diaspora

• Abolition

This British former administrator of the Cape Colony was depicted with his legs stretched from "Cape Town to Cairo."

• Cecil Rhodes

• Winston Churchill

• Leopold II

• Henry VIII