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History of South & East Africa

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 30mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is ethnocentrism

a)

It is an altitude that makes people think they are better.

b)

It is an attitude that believed that there cultures were superior.

c)

It is an attitude that one's own race and culture are superior to all others.

d)

It is an attitude that one's religion is superior to all others.

2.

The first Europeans who came to Africa and expanded the slave trade were the ___.

a)

British.

b)

Europeans.

c)

French.

d)

Portuguese

3.

Kenya's path to independence

a)

made them take power by force and left the white minority in power

b)

made them take power by political means and left the black majority in power.

c)

made them take power by political means and left the black minority in power.

d)

made them take power by force and left the black majority in power.

4.

South Africa's path to Independence

a)

made them take power by political means and left the white minority in power.

b)

made them take power by force and left the white minority in power.

c)

made them take power by political means and left the black minority in power.

d)

made them take power by force and left the white minority in power.

5.

The ANC was

a)

a political party that worked for black civil rights in South Africa.

b)

a political party that worked for black civil rights in Kenya.

c)

a movement that kicked out the British by using force.

d)

A racist political party in South Africa.

6.

Advanced farming methods, iron work, and their language was the legacy of the ___.

a)

European people.

b)

Bantu people.

c)

South African people.

d)

Boer people.

7.

Choose the best answer to complete the sentence:

"The Boer were the Dutch, French, and other European _____ who created Cape Colony."

a)

farmers

b)

settlers

c)

fossils

d)

ethnocentrics

8.

The Bantu came from _____ and had to migrate when their lands could no longer hold them.

a)

South Africa

b)

East Africa

c)

West Africa

d)

Madagascar

9.

Fossils ___.

a)

help humans know where they will go.

b)

help scientists know when volcanoes erupted.

c)

help scientists know about early humans.

d)

help humans know where their families come from.

10.

Which colonists were overthrown by the Mau Mau rebellion?

a)

British

b)

French

c)

Portuguese

d)

Kenyans

11.

In which modern country did the Boers settle?

a)

Sudan

b)

Kenya

c)

Mozambique

d)

South Africa

12.

How did the policy of apartheid separate people in South Africa?

a)

by colony

b)

by language

c)

by race

d)

by religion

13.

Both ___ and ___ worked together to end apartheid.

a)

F. W. De Klerk and Cecil Rhodes

b)

Nelson Mandela and F.W. De Klerk

c)

Nelson Mandela and Jomo Kenyatta

d)

Mau Mau and Kikuyu

14.

The word Boer

a)

means "settler" in German.

b)

means "farmer" in French.

c)

means "farmer in Dutch.

d)

means "settler" in Dutch.

15.

The positive effect of urbanization and industrialization in the region was based on ___.

a)

factories creating jobs and countries becoming richer

b)

rural traditional life being affected by people leaving.

c)

factories creating jobs and contaminating.

d)

rural traditional life being improved so people stayed.