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CHAPTER 20 TEST
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CHAPTER 20
AFRICA: SHAPED BY HISTORY
Identifying Main Ideas
Write the letter of the correct answer or ending in the blank provided. (10 points each)
1. Africa’s first people were
a. ironworkers in West Africa.
b. Bantu-speakers in Southern Africa.
c. hunter-gatherers in East Africa.
d. ancient Egyptians along the Nile.
2. People began settling in one place after they learned to
a. domesticate plants and animals.
c. migrate from one place to another.
b. heat and shape iron.
d. produce a food surplus.
3. A civilization includes
a. all the living and nonliving things in a place.
b. knowledge of plant and animal domestication and tool making.
c. early East Africans, Ancient Egyptians, and Bantu-speakers.
d. cities, a government, social classes, architecture, writing, and art.
4. Mansa Musa’s reign was most greatly influenced by
a. his pilgrimage to Mecca.
c. his Islamic beliefs.
b. his title, which means “emperor.”
d. the gold mines in West Africa.
5. Swahili is best described as
a. a by-product of trade.
b. a blend of Islam and African religion.
c. Bantu mixed with Arab.
d. a language spoken in East Africa.
7. Which of the following tore apart African families and societies for 300 years,
beginning in the 1500s?
a. colonization
c. the Atlantic slave trade
b. Pan-Africanism
d. boycotts
8. Which of the following denied Africans power to govern themselves?
a. colonization
b. boycotts
c. Portugal
d. Pan-Africanism
9. Which of the following names a feeling of pride in one’s homeland, such as
Africans developed under colonial rule?
a. Pan-Africanism
b. democracy
c. boycott
d. nationalism
10. In what form of government do citizens help to make decisions?
a. a military government
c. a dictatorship
b. a democracy
d. a Pan-African state
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6. A city-state has
a. a strong economy and control of foreign trade.
b. all the characteristics of a civilization.
c. a location that allows for the free flow of goods and ideas.
d. its own government and control over much of the surrounding land.