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Unit 8 Quiz

Total questions: 36

Worksheet time: 18mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What religion was practiced by the people of Axum?

a)

Islam

b)

Pantheism

c)

Judaism

d)

Coptic Christianity

2.

Which group was indigenous to the Western part of North Africa?

a)

Bedouins

b)

Noks

c)

Axumites

d)

Berbers

3.

All of the following are true about a non-centralized society except

a)

characterized by autonomous villages

b)

organized by clans

c)

ruled by a king

d)

ruled by a local chieftain

4.

Describe the geography and resources of the Congo River Valley

a)

Arid grasslands and gold deposits.

b)

Fertile land and iron deposits

c)

Harsh deserts and copper deposits

d)

None of the above

5.

All of the following are true of the Great Zimbabwe except

a)

the name means "stone house" in the BAntu language

b)

it was strategically located for trade

c)

the city is still thriving in Central Africa

d)

the stone walls were built without mortar.

6.

The kingdom of the Congo was located just north of the mouth of the Congo River.

a)

True

b)

False

7.

The kingdom of Luba was centralized and led by a king.

a)

True

b)

False

8.

Which of the following is true about the economies of the kingdom of the Congo and Luba?

a)

agriculture

b)

manufacturing

c)

trade

d)

all of the above

9.

What was the purpose of walls in the walled villages of Zimbabwe?

a)

protect the king from invaders

b)

protect the animals at night

c)

protect themselves from Bantu migrants

d)

limit trade beyond the village

10.

How did the wealthy people in the Great Zimbabwe live?

a)

in houses built of cement on stone foundations

b)

of dried mud with thatched roofs

c)

in caves decorated with rock paintings

d)

in rock chambers

11.

What was the main source of royal wealth

a)

ownership of cattle

b)

taxes on gold passing through kingdom

c)

All of the above

d)

None of the above

12.

As the Bantu migrated southward toward the end of the first millennium they

a)

waged war on the hunter gatherers that they encountered

b)

often intermarried with the hunter gatherers that they encountered

c)

abandoned agriculture and embraced a hunter gatherer lifestyle

d)

all of the above

13.

Current scholarship places African peoples at the forefront of the agricultural revolution in the 9th and 8th centuries BCE.

a)

True

b)

False

14.

Africans play little or no role in the expanding global trade network of the 1st millennium CE.

a)

True

b)

False

15.

Two states that emerged in the Congo River Valley were the kingdom of the Congo and Luba

a)

True

b)

False

16.

Khoisan was

a)

A language shared by two peoples of South Africa

b)

A hunter gathering people of South Africa

c)

An offshoot ethnic group of the Bantu peoples

d)

Migrant peoples from Arabia to East Africa

17.

All of the following are true of Nok pottery heads except

a)

They were connected with religious rituals

b)

They were connected with devotion of ancestors

c)

They were made of iron

d)

They were made of terra-cotta

18.

African music included choral music and individual voices in a pattern of repetition and variation.

a)

True

b)

False

19.

The monsoon winds

a)

facilitated Indian Ocean trade

b)

facilitated Trans-Saharan trade

c)

Neither a nor b

d)

Both a and b

20.

Slavery in Africa

a)

wars introduced by the Muslims

b)

went back to ancient times, long before the arrival of Europeans

c)

saved its harshest treatment for domestic and royal servants

d)

was virtually non-existent in North Africa

21.

Which state was the first to emerge in West Africa?

a)

Ghana

b)

Songhai

c)

Zimbabwe

d)

Kilwa

22.

Local chieftains in villages were called

a)

stelae

b)

mansa

c)

sasa

d)

Amani

23.

What is a savannah?

a)

wetland

b)

grassland

c)

jungle

d)

transval

24.

What resource led to the rise of the kingdom of Ghana?

a)

Silver

b)

Water

c)

Silk

d)

Gold

25.

The ancient Ethiopian civilization at Axum embraced this religion

a)

Roman Catholicism

b)

Judaism

c)

Islam

d)

Coptic Christianity

26.

The land of Zanj exported

a)

rhinoceros horn

b)

gold

c)

ivory

d)

all of the above

27.

The Sahara Desert was not always not always a desert.

a)

True

b)

False

28.

Which geographic obstacle divides Africa's norther coast from the rest of the country?

a)

Niger River

b)

Nile River

c)

Horn of Africa

d)

Sahara Desert

29.

Which group was indigenous to North Africa and served as intermediaries in the Trans-Saharan trade?

a)

K;urds

b)

Swahilis

c)

Berbers

d)

Bedouins

30.

Many lineage systems in Africa were matrilineal.

a)

True

b)

False

31.

Music was often used in religious activity in Africa.

a)

True

b)

False

32.

What is a Mansa?

a)

Chieftain of a Mali farming village

b)

Islamic religious leader

c)

Warlord of early kingdom

d)

None of the above

33.

The Egyptian form of Christianity called

a)

Berber

b)

Roman Catholic

c)

Coptic

d)

Sunni

34.

Where did the people of Axum possibly migrate from?

a)

Arabian Peninsula

b)

South Africa

c)

Western Europe

d)

South East Asia

35.

What is significant about the structures of the Great Zimbabwe?

a)

The were taller than other city walls

b)

They were the first city walls

c)

They were built without mortar

d)

They were ineffectual again attack

36.

Which family of languages is spoken by the people south of the Sahara desert and Axum

a)

Kalaharian

b)

Nok

c)

Bantu

d)

Swahili