Question 1

European colonization was effective throughout Sub-Saharan Africa, with the exception of one country. What was that exception?

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Question 2

Which of the following countries did NOT receive African territory in the Berlin Conference?

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Question 3

Throughout the decade of the 2000s, China's trade with Sub-Saharan Africa grew on average ________% per year.

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Question 4

What is the term for a person who has fled from a conflict, but who still resides in his or her country of origin?

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Question 5

What is Sub-Saharan Africa's main trading partner?

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Question 6

Life expectancy in Sub-Saharan Africa is ________ years

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Question 7

Economic aid is extremely important for many African states, and foreign direct investment in the region substantially increased from only $4.5 billion in 1995 to $________ billion in 2010.

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Question 8

Which country is the unchallenged economic powerhouse in Sub-Saharan Africa?

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Question 9

What territory successfully seceded from Ethiopia in 1993 and became a new country after twenty years of civil war?

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Question 10

According to the graphic below, in which of the following countries does foreign aid make up the smallest percentage of their GNI?

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Question 11

What country has begun offering African nations money for roads, railways, and schools with relatively few strings attached in order to secure oil from African countries to fuel its development?

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Question 12

What is a kleptocracy?

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Question 13

Which of the following statements regarding decolonization in Sub-Saharan Africa is most accurate?

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Question 14

What Sub-Saharan African territory declared its independence in the 1990s, but has yet to be recognized as independent by any other nations?

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Question 15

By the early 1990s, Sub-Saharan Africa's foreign debt was around

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Question 16

Which European country had lost all of its African colonies by the end of WWI?

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Question 17

Of the following countries of Sub-Saharan Africa, which one saw the least political strife in the 1990s?

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Question 18

According to the World Bank, what percentage of Sub-Saharan Africans lived on less than $2 a day?

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Question 19

Which of the following was NOT one of the elements or characteristics of apartheid?

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Question 20

According to the World Bank, there are about how many cell phones per 100 Africans?

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Quiz 6: Sub-Saharan Africa