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COLONIAL RULE IN AFRICA

Total questions: 16

Worksheet time: 8mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What role did Nelson Mandela and F.W. De Klerk play in the practice of Apartheid in South Africa?

a)

they worked to abolish apartheid

b)

They created apartheid

c)

They helped maintain apartheid

d)

They enhanced apartheid

2.

The purpose of the Pan-African movement in Africa is to:

a)

Create one African Government

b)

Spread traditional religious beliefs

c)

Create one African language

d)

Develop a unified African political identity

3.

What is colonialism?

a)

the uniting of a continent’s people to fight for their independence

b)

when one country takes control over another country and then sends its people to settle that country

c)

laws created to enforce segregation in South Africa

d)

the uniting of a country’s people to fight for their independence

4.

How did colonialism lead to civil war in Africa?

a)

African ethnic groups fought against each other for control of their country after independence from colonial rule.

b)

Europeans fought against each other for control of Africa’s natural resources

c)

Africans welcomed the use of their natural resources for European factories

d)

Africans fought Europeans for control over their natural resources

5.

The main problem with the colonial boundaries drawn by Europeans was?

a)

Europeans drew the borders without considering natural resources

b)

The borders are not official and have never been made legal

c)

The border can be changed anytime

d)

Europeans drew the borders without considering the loyalties and territories of ethnic groups

6.

What belief was key in the push for African Independence?

a)

Discrimination

b)

Nationalism

c)

Patriotism

d)

Isolationism

7.

Many of the protests by Africans after World War II were against

a)

Apartheid

b)

Independence

c)

Nationalism

d)

Discrimination

8.

How did colonialism cause conflict between Africans and Europeans?

a)

Europeans fought each other for control of Africa’s natural resources

b)

African ethnic groups fought one another for control of their country after independence from colonial rule.

c)

Africans fought Europeans for control over their natural resources.

d)

Africans welcomed the use of their natural resources for European factories.

9.

Apartheid means

a)

Lowered importance

b)

Separateness

c)

Togetherness

d)

Discrimination

10.

After independence, many countries in Africa continued to face challenges because:

a)

Countries maintained the same colonial political boundaries, which forced conflicting ethnic and religious groups into the same political boundaries.

b)

Nationalism

c)

Europeans used up all of the natural resources in Africa

d)

Tribal lands returned to their original borders

11.

The following was NOT a product of apartheid:

a)

black South Africans had to live in separate areas called homelands

b)

political power was reserved for whites

c)

black South Africans could not vote

d)

the black South African vote only counted as ½ of a white vote

12.

Who was the first black South African to be elected President of South Africa in 1994, after being imprisoned for 27 years for his anti-apartheid protests as a member of the African National Congress?

a)

Kwame Nkrumah

b)

Nelson Mandela

c)

Desmond Tutu

d)

Jomo Kenyatta

13.

Pan-Africanism is to the continent as Nationalism is to a ­­­­­­­­­­­­­­_______________________.

a)

hemisphere

b)

state

c)

city

d)

country

14.

Segregation is to the United States as _________________ is to South Africa.

a)

Apartheid

b)

Pan-Africanism

c)

independence

d)

settlement

15.

Which South African president ended apartheid?

a)

Desmond Tutu

b)

Kwame Nkrumah

c)

F.W. de Klerk

d)

Nelson Mandela

16.

How did apartheid impact the non-white population of South Africa?

a)

They lived in separate areas from the white South Africans, but there was no other relationship difference between them.

b)

They were treated as equals after the British left South Africa in 1961.

c)

They were allowed to vote if they were educated.

d)

They were not allowed to vote and had to use separate facilities.