Western Africa Review

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Three countries in Western Africa, Cote d’Ivoire, Ghana and Nigeria, have recently built their own cocoa bean processing plants. Which of the following is not one of the benefits of this new idea? The cocoa beans will taste better. Farmers will save the money they had been spending on shipping costs. Local workers will have more jobs. The beans will not have to be sent to other countries for processing.

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The cocoa beans will taste better.

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Fill in the blank: Kofi Annan was the first black man to head the ________.

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United Nations

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Which of the following best sums up the lesson of the folk tale 'The Old Woman and the Bowls'?
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Never go to the forest by yourself.
Greed will cause you a lot of problems.
The smallest bowl is always the best.
It is better to be rich than to be kind.

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Greed will cause you a lot of problems.

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Which statement about oware is best supported by the information in this week’s issue? Oware can be played using a wooden board or by digging holes in the dirt. There is only one way to play oware. Oware eventually developed into the game we call checkers. The loser of the game must plant all of the seeds.

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Oware can be played using a wooden board or by digging holes in the dirt.

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Kofi Annan is known for all of the following EXCEPT: chosen as the first black man to head the United Nations, created programs to help fight deadly diseases in Africa, winning the Nobel Peace Prize

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fighting as a soldier in Ghana’s civil war

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Portugal, Great Britain, France, and what other European country built settlements in Western Africa?

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Germany

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What is the most likely reason that over 1,000 languages are spoken in Western Africa?

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This region has many different ethnic groups and tribes, so there are many languages spoken here.

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Why do workers on cocoa farms not eat the beans they are picking?

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The cocoa beans taste terrible until they are processed.

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What is trypanosomiasis?

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Trypansomiasis is African sleeping sickness.