The Harmattan is a hot, dry wind that blows out of the __________.
the interior of Africa
The Savanna Grasslands of Africa have __________.
a long dry season
The highest rates of AIDS infection are in __________.
Southern Africa
Which one of the following diseases is caused by the tsetse fly?
sleeping sickness
The parasite bilharzia causes __________.
Schistosomiasis
The highlands in this modern country were one of the centers of domestication of plants andanimals in Sub-Sahara Africa.
Ethiopia
__________ is a modification of shifting cultivation where crops are rotated around a village,fallow periods are shorter and soil may be enriched through household waste.
Bush fallow
Benin and this modern country were once known as the ʺSlave Coast.ʺ
Nigeria
The Boers were southern African colonists from which European nation?
The Netherlands
Which country was the first to gain independence in the 1950s?
Ghana
Which colonial powerʹs policy was based on assimilation of native peoples?
France
The Unilateral Declaration of Independence was created in opposition to proposals for blackmajority rule in the country now known as __________.
Zimbabwe
What was the purpose of the South African ʺPass Law?ʺ
control public movements of non-whites
Who developed and implemented the concept of African socialism in his country?
Julius Nyerere
In which country was there an attempted secession of Biafra in 1967?
Nigeria
Petroleum is the major mineral export from this country.
Nigeria
All of these countries get more than half their export earnings from petroleum.
Nigeria
Gabon
Angola
Zambia is most noted for exports of:
copper
This is the major river system in Central Africa.
Congo
This is the major river system in West Africa.
Niger
This river system in southern Africa drains into an inland delta.
Okavango
About this percent of Africa is still forested.
20%
The total GNP for Sub-Saharan Africa in 2002 was what percentage of the global total?
1%
The settlement of Madagascar began about 500 A.D. with the arrival of people from this region.
present day Indonesia
This early Ethiopian society adopted Christianity around 500 A.D.
Aksum
The first European settlers in South Africa originated from this country.
the Netherlands
What was the purpose of the ʺBerlin Conference?ʺ
divide Africa between the major European colonial powers
This is the largest country in population in Africa.
Nigeria
Which of the following is true of Sub-Saharan Africa?
highest average birth rates in the world
lower population density than the global average
most countries are 40% to 50% under 15 years of age
The idea of ujamaa promoted by Julius Nyerere meant:
African socialism based on traditional values of communal ownership
These two countries ended the colonial period with civil wars between Soviet-supported Marxist forces and U.S.-supported pro-Western forces.
Angola and Mozambique
This is the largest city on the African continent.
Lagos, Nigeria
This is the largest Christian denomination in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Roman Catholicism
The best estimate of the number of languages spoken in Sub-Saharan Africa is:
over 800
The ethnic conflict between the Hutus and the Tutsis in the early 1990s was mostly in thecountries of:
Rwanda and Burundi
The civil war in the late 1990s in Liberia spread to the neighboring country of:
Sierra Leone
The main conflict in Zimbabwe is based in:
white settlers owning 32% of the countryʹs farmland
Dependency theorists believe the solution to the problems in Sub-Saharan countries is to:
create local capacity to produce goods
True or False: Uganda and Senegal have promoted aggressive and successful AIDS education andprevention campaigns and have cut infection rates in half.
True
True or False: One aspect of structural adjustment programs is usually to remove tariffs and other tradebarriers.
True
True or False: Christians slightly outnumber Muslims in Sub-Saharan Africa.
True
True or False: Most people in Sub-Saharan Africa still practice pre-Christian, pre-Muslim religions.
FALSE
True or False: ʺCarrying Capacityʺ is the measurement of the ability of land to support its population.
True
True or False: African women with more education tend to have smaller families than those women with lesseducation.
True
True or False: Fertility rates tend to be higher in African cities than in rural areas.
FALSE
True or False: African countries have seen a steady decline in the price for their raw materials exports overthe last decades.
True
True or False: The foreign debt of Sub-Saharan Africa is 1/3 that of Latin America and Asia.
True
True or False: ʺCircular Migrationʺ is the traditional and long standing population movement that respondsto seasonal availability of pasture, droughts, and wage employment.
