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Sub-Saharan Africa Revision Quiz

Total questions: 37

Worksheet time: 19mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is the apartheid system?

a)

A democratic government system

b)

A system that brought equality to all races

c)

A system of laws that segrated the races in South Africa

d)

A dictator type of government system

2.

Which group of people held the power during apartheid?

a)

Asians

b)

White South Africans

c)

Non whites of South Africa

d)

Black South Africans

3.

Who was arrested and went to jail for leading protest against apartheid law?

a)

F.W. deKlerk

b)

Gandhi

c)

Martin Luther King

d)

Nelson Mandela

4.

What organization was formed to gain equal right for black Africans in South Africa?

a)

African National Congress

b)

The African Union

c)

United Nations

d)

League of Nations

5.

In the 1900's, this country had less than 10% of the citizens were white but owned 80% of the land.

a)

Kenya

b)

South Africa

c)

Nigeria

d)

Congo

6.

What year did South Africa have it's first free election open to all races?

a)

2012

b)

1999

c)

1994

d)

2002

7.

Which president in South Africa brought apartheid to an end?

a)

Nelson Mandela

b)

Jomo Kenyatta

c)

F.W. deKlerk

d)

JF Kennedy

8.

Nelson Mandela was elected the first black president of South Africa.

a)

True

b)

False

9.

What happened to Mandela due to fighting and riots blamed on his organization?

a)

He was sentenced to prison but his sentence was commuted to house arrest.

b)

He was sentenced to prison and remained there for 27 years.

c)

He was sentenced to prison but he was never forced to serve his sentence.

d)

He was never blamed for any actions but other leaders were.

10.

Something handed down from ancestors or history

a)

Maim

b)

Haphazard

c)

Bedraggled

d)

Legacy

11.

Airports • Canals • Highways • Rivers

These are all examples of________

a)

Transportation Barriers

b)

Transportation Corridors

12.

What is the main benefit of Transportation Corridors?

a)

Provides an escape route

b)

Prevents immigration

c)

Stops erosion

d)

Saves travel time

13.

What is a transportation corridor?

a)

Routes to move people and goods easily between places

b)

Routes for large ships

c)

Paved roads through a forest

d)

Borders with man made barriers, such as DMZ.

14.

In what year did Sudan get independence?

a)

1950

b)

1956

c)

1960

d)

1966

15.

In what year did Somalia become independent?

a)

1950

b)

1956

c)

1960

d)

1966

16.

Who changed apartheid laws in South Africa?

a)

Gates

b)

Mandela

c)

Klerk

d)

Musk

17.

Why has Somalia had difficulty obtaining unity in its country?

a)

5 clans rivalry

b)

religious conflicts

c)

conflict between military and rebels

d)

pirates

18.

What challenges do some Sub-Saharan countries face in developing their mining industries?

a)

rebels

b)

unstable climate

c)

unstable government

d)

unstable food supply

19.

Which is the correct definition of 'mineral'.

a)

A gas, naturally occurring substance.

b)

A liquid, naturally occurring organic substance.

c)

A solid, naturally occurring inorganic (doesn’t come from living material) substance.

20.

Somalia has not had a fully functional government since 1991.

a)

True

b)

False

21.

Somalian conflict is based off of ____.

a)

Religion

b)

Ethnicity or Race

c)

Clan

d)

None of these answers.

22.

The U.S. mission in 1992-93 was successful in Somalia.

a)

True

b)

False

23.

What is the definition of a failed state?

a)

A government that is strong.

b)

A lack of any government.

c)

A government that changed from democracy to another form.

d)

An authoritarian government.

24.

What type of resource is found in abundance throughout Sub-Saharan Africa?

a)

fish

b)

grains

c)

minerals

d)

trees

25.

Why has Somalia had difficulty achieving unity?

a)

conflict between Muslim north and Christian south

b)

conflict among five rival clans

c)

conflict between military forces and democratic rebels

d)

conflict among pirate groups

26.

How did Europeans decided where to put the borders of their colonies?

a)

They used Africa's natural features such as rivers.

b)

They divided Africa to meet their own resource needs

c)

They asked Africans to identify their cultural borders

d)

They researched the borders of ancient African empires

27.

What was one of the main problems with the borders that Europeans established in Africa?

a)

They crossed too many rivers and lakes

b)

They divided some cultural groups and grouped some rivals together

c)

They blocked British colonies from the ocean

d)

They made it very difficult for French colonists to transport resources.

28.

Why haven't African nations benefitted more from their mineral wealth?

a)

They did not discover the minerals until very recently

b)

Corrupt governments took much of the profits from mining

c)

People with traditional beliefs oppose digging the land

d)

A lack of universities led to a shortage of engineers

29.

What term is used for a country in which government, economic institutions and civil order have broken down?

a)

clan system

b)

failed state

c)

federal system

d)

military state

30.

Before Europeans colonised Africa, how did African cultural groups define their borders?

a)

climate patterns

b)

map lines

c)

natural features

d)

wooden fences

31.

APARTHEID happened in.........

a)

England

b)

Malta

c)

South America

d)

South Africa

32.

APARTHEID broke which 2 main HUMAN RIGHTS?

a)

The RIGHT to eat

b)

The RIGHT to be EQUAL

c)

The RIGHT to travel

d)

The RIGHT of FREEDOM

33.

The word APARTHEID means.......

a)

Friendship

b)

Separateness

c)

Racism

d)

A big apartment

34.

Mainly Apartheid DIVIDED people according to......

a)

Gender

b)

Age

c)

Race

d)

Religion

35.

Apartheid started in ........

a)

1938

b)

1948

c)

2008

d)

1984

36.

The white people in South Africa were the

a)

majority

b)

minority

37.

During APARTHEID, black people could not ................ HUMAN RIGHTS.

a)

take

b)

claim

c)

accept

d)

refuse