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Apartheid Review

Total questions: 14

Worksheet time: 42mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

When did Apartheid take place?

a)

1948-1999

b)

1038-1945

c)

1948-1994

d)

1900-1950

2.

Where did Apartheid happen?

a)

South America

b)

South Africa

c)

South Pole

d)

Southeast Asia

3.

What does the word Apartheid mean?

a)

apartness

b)

nationalism

c)

unity

d)

imperialism

4.

Which group is responsible for creating the Apartheid laws?

a)

African National Congress

b)

Xhosa

c)

Zulu

d)

Afrikaner National Party

5.

Which law forced non-white Africans to tribal homelands?

a)

The Immorality Act

b)

Pass Laws

c)

Native Lands Act

6.

What is a black township?

a)

A village of government houses for Africans with jobs

b)

A shanty town where black South Africans could live freely

c)

A shanty town where black South Africans could live if they were employed

d)

A tent city in a tribal homeland 

7.

Which law prohibits relationships between balck and white south Africans?

a)

The Immorality Act

b)

Pass Laws

c)

Population Registration Act

d)

The Native Lands Act

8.

The Population Registration Act was significant to Apartheid because…

a)

It divided people into “white” and “nonwhite” categories

b)

It made it illegal for blacks and whites to travel

c)

It made it illegal for blacks and whites to marry

d)

It forced black Africans to return to their native homelands

9.

What laws from the United States are similar to the Apartheid laws?

a)

Pass Laws

b)

Jim Crow Laws

c)

Nuremberg Laws

d)

Freedom of Information Act

10.

Which 1960 peaceful protest against passbooks turned violent when the police attacked?

a)

Sharpeville Massacre

b)

Soweto uprising

c)

Pass Laws

d)

The Salt March

11.

Which white South African president was responsible for ending Apartheid and freeing Nelson Mandela?

a)

Desmond Tutu

b)

Steve Beiko

c)

F.W. de Klerk

d)

Mohandis Gandhi

12.

After being imprisoned for 27 years, which ANC leader was elected in 1994 to officially mark the end of Apartheid?

a)

Desmond Tutu

b)

Nelson Mandela

c)

F.W de Klerk

d)

Barack Obama

13.

Who is the black anglican bishops who helped end Aparteid by encouraging countries to put economic sanctions on South Africa?

a)

Trevor Noah

b)

Pieter Botha

c)

Desmond Tutu

d)

Nelson Mandela

14.

What was the 1976 protest against black students being taught in Afrikans?

a)

Soweto Uprising

b)

Sharpeville Massacre

c)

The Passbook Protest

d)

No Child Left Behind