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,Chapter 1: Ancestral AfricaMultiple Choice
1. What linguistic group predominated in the region of north-central Africa?
a. Koisan
b. Afro-Asiatic
c. Nilo-Siharan
d. Niger-Congo
ANS: c
Page: 4
2. Scholars believe that, around 2000 B.C.E., speakers of which language spread from present
day Nigeria and Cameroon southward and eastward to make their language the most commonly
used one on the continent?
a. Akan
b. Yoruba
c. Kintampo
d. Bantu
ANS: d
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3. The artifacts of the ancient Nok people of the Jos Plateau provide archaeological evidence of
all of the following EXCEPT
a. highly developed iron-making capabilities.
b. settled communities centered around agricultural production.
c. a written language used for administrative and economic records.
d. figurative terracotta sculptures.
ANS: c
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4. What is an abrammuo?
a. a weight for measuring precious metals
b. a small sculpture used in religious ceremonies
c. a wind instrument similar to the modern flute
d. a headpiece worn by Ghanaian emperors
ANS: a
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5. Before the fifteenth century C.E., what commodity did Arabs and Europeans most desire from
sub-Saharan Africa?
a. spices
b. slaves
c. gold
d. iron
ANS: c
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6. Which of the following statements about dyula is LEAST accurate?
a. They used items such as cowry shells as a form of currency.
b. They were often among the first sub-Saharan Africans to convert to Islam.
c. They were all members of the same Mande-speaking ethnic group.
d. They settled in dispersed regions of West Africa, but maintained commercial ties among
themselves.
ANS: c
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7. By the ninth century C.E., West Africa had well-established trading connections with the
Muslim world, conducted
a. across the Sahara desert.
b. along the Atlantic coast.
c. across the Mediterranean Sea.
d. along the Indian coast.
ANS: a
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8. Archaeological and historical evidence indicates that
a. until ca. 900 C.E., West African settlements engaged in little trade or cultural interaction with
each other.
b. around 900 C.E. Muslim adventurers introduced wetland rice cultivation to West Africa.
c. the conversion of African rulers to Islam helped to expand West Africa’s commercial
activities.
d. the absence of river-going watercraft stunted the development of West Africa’s internal traffic
until the arrival of Europeans ca. 1450 C.E.
ANS: c
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9. Members of the acephalous societies of the West African interior were particularly susceptible
to enslavement because these societies
a. were the first societies encountered by European explorers in the fifteenth century.
b. resided along trade routes frequented by Muslim traders.
c. possessed abundant resources, which made them the envy and prey of their neighbors.
d. had less political organization than their more powerful neighbors.
ANS: d
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10. Which of the following statements about West African slavery in the centuries leading up to
the arrival of Europeans in that region is most accurate?
a. Slaves could not own property of their own.
b. West African slavery resembled slavery as practiced in the Muslim world.
c. Slavery was a permanent status which could not be transcended either by a slave or a slave’s
children.
, d. Slavery was an aberration that was almost unknown in most West African societies.
ANS: b
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11. The English word “slave” originally referred to people from
a. Eastern Europe.
b. West Africa.
c. England.
d. Egypt.
ANS: a
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12. What event led Europeans to look toward Africa as a primary source of slaves?
a. the abolition of serfdom
b. the beginning of Muslim trade with West Africa
c. the fall of Constantinople
d. the rise of serfdom
ANS: c
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13. How did the status of European serfs differ from the status of European slaves?
a. Serfs had almost unlimited freedom of mobility.
b. Serfs did not have to pay taxes.
c. Serfs were protected from harsh or coercive treatment.
d. Serfs enjoyed certain legal rights.
ANS: d
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14. Which of the following statements about West African slavery is LEAST accurate?
a. Some Africans were enslaved as a result of political offenses.
b. Some poor Africans entered into slavery voluntarily in return for protection.
c. Africans never enslaved members of their own ethnic communities.
d. Many Africans entered slavery after being conquered by a military rival.
ANS: c
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15. In West Africa, female slaves
a. were acquired to serve as wives and agricultural laborers.
b. represented twice as much of the internal slave trade as men, but only half as much as men in
the trans-Saharan slave trade.
c. represented twice as much of the trans-Saharan slave trade as men, but only half as much as
men in the internal slave trade.
d. were traditionally protected from having to provide their masters with sexual services.
ANS: a
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