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Traditions & Encounters, StudievragenChapter: Chapter 18
1. The remarkable oral tradition of sub-Saharan Africa was preserved primarily by
A) Muslim African scholars.
B) Professional singers and griots.
C) Village chiefs and diviners.
D) Women.
E) None of these answers is correct.
2. The story of Sundiata was about
A) The heroic deeds of the lion prince in establishing the Mali Empire.
B) The misery of slaves captured and traded in the Mediterranean basin network.
C) The coming of Islam as a dominant faith in sub-Saharan societies.
D) The rise of the Swahili city-states.
E) None of these answers is correct.
3. Trade and communications networks were slower to penetrate sub-Saharan
Africa compared to other regions because
A) Africans had little contact with each other.
B) Africans did not have any goods that others wanted to trade for.
C) There was a language barrier.
D) There were formidable geographic barriers to overcome.
E) All these answers are correct.
4. The earliest Bantu migrants were
A) Aggressive warriors.
B) Hunting and gathering peoples.
C) Fishing peoples.
D) Agriculturalists.
E) Horsemen.
5. All of the following stimulated African migrations EXCEPT
A) Iron metallurgy.
B) Bubonic plague.
C) Bananas.
D) Population pressure.
E) Agriculture.
6. Before the tenth century, the dominant form of social organization in sub-
Saharan Africa was the
A) city-state.
B) Empire.
C) kin-based system.
D) Kingdom.
E) Theocracy.
7. Which of the following statements describes a typical kin-based society?
A) Male heads of families presided over village affairs.
, B) The most prominent of the family heads acted as chief.
C) A group of villages constituted a district.
D) Ethnic loyalties were focused at the district level.
E) All these answers are correct.
8. The kingdom of Kongo
A) Emerged as a powerful state through trading with Muslim merchants of North
Africa.
B) Maintained a royal currency system based on cowries from the Indian
Ocean.
C) Was a loosely organized government with little authority over officials
D) Was destroyed by the expansion of the Swahili.
E) None of these answers is correct.
9. The arrival of camels in Africa
A) Made communication across the Sahara possible.
B) Quickened the pace of communication across the Sahara.
C) Replaced elephants as the preferred transport animals throughout the Sahara.
D) Still did not make travel across the Sahara possible.
E) None of these answers is correct.
10. Koumbi-Saleh was to the kingdom of Ghana as
A) Mansa Musa was to the Mali Empire.
B) Niani was to the Mali Empire.
C) Sundiata was to the Mali Empire.
D) Zaire was to the kingdom of Kongo.
E) Axum was to the Christians.
11. The conversion to Islam of rulers of the kingdom of Ghana and the Mali
Empire
A) Stimulated commercial relations with Muslim merchants.
B) Meant that Islamic faith was imposed forcibly on their entire societies.
C) Facilitated the export of Muslim African slaves by these two states to other
Islamic countries.
D) Transformed the role of women in those cultures.
E) All these answers are correct.
12. Swahili
A) Was an Arabic language.
B) Refers to the peoples of the east African coast.
C) Refers to the slave traders of Africa.
D) Is a dead language.
E) Was the language of the Mali Empire.
13. All of the following were Swahili city-states EXCEPT
A) Sofala and Mogadishu.
B) Zimbabwe and Ife.
C) Malindi and Kilwa.
D) Zanzibar and Mozambique.
E) None of these answers is correct, because all were Swahili city-states.
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