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Ethnic area delineations and country boundaries in Subsaharan Africa overlap considerable.

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False

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The Hutus and Tutsis fought for control of Uganda.

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False

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Before independence, the modern state of The Congo was a colony of:

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Belgium

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South Africa's cities almost stopped growing during the period of apartheid.

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False

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West Africa showed a high degree of regional complementarity between:

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The peoples of the tropical forest and the peoples of the dry interior.

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Tourism, once a particularly important business in _____, sturggles to remain viable in the face of numerous challenges:

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Kenya

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A market that is set up on certain days of the week is known as a _____ market.

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Periodic

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African sleeping sickness is transmitted by the tsetse fly.

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True

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The names and shapes South African provinces changed after apartheid ended.

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True

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Tourists are drawn to the realm for its wildlife.

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True

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The Boer War took place in:

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South Africa

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Which of the following countries is located in the Horn of Africa?

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Ethiopia

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A disease that spreads worldwide is known as a:

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pandemic

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Which of the following countries borders Lake Victoria?

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Uganda

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The country that moved its capital from Lagos to the new centrally-located city of Abuja is:

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Nigeria

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Which of the following associations is incorrect?

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Orange River--Nigeria

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Of the following, which European country was the last to give up its African colonies?

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Portugal

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The capital of The Congo, called Leopoldville in colonial times, is _____.

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Kinshasa

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Prior to their independence, Mocambique and Angola were both colonies of _____.

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Portugal

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The advancint religion in the African Transition Zone is _____.

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Islam

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The African mainland country directly west of the island of Madagascar is _____.

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Mocambique

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This West African country borders Liberia, is a former French colony, and built a Roman Catholic basilica in Yamoussoukro to ribal St. Peter's in Rome:

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Ivory Coast

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As demonstrated on Figure G-7 and discussed in the Chapter 6a text, the climate directly to the north and south of the Congo River Basin displays _____.

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a winter-dry season (Aw)

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The capital of The Congo is:

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Kinshasa

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The ethnic group exerting the most control in Kenya is the :

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Kikuyu

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The southern periphery of the African Transition Zone is known as the _____ Front.

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Islamic

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Nigeria's old capital of Lagos was situated within the culture area of the people known as the:

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Yoruba

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Which of the following countries is the home of the Shona and Ndebele tribes where whites have been expelled by government-backed squatters seeking thier land?

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Zimbabwe

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The Kalahari Desert is founded in the Central part of The Congo.

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False

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The country in Equatorial Africa with significant oil supplies and the only coastal capital is:

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Gabon

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The southern part of the Subsaharan Africa is more Islamic than the north.

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False

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The core area of Zimbabwe is the mineral-rich Great Dyke.

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True

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The West African savanna states benefited from complementairity between peoples of the forests and the peoples of the dry lands to the north.

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True

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The Berlin Conference took place immediately after World War I and was attended by 8 colonial powers interested in acquiring African spheres of influence.

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False

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The natural environment of Bostwana is dominated by:

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The Kalahari Desert

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Peridoic markers are found in the central city squares of West Africa's largest urban concentrations.

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False

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The most populous country of the African continent, which today compirses a confederation of the Yorubra, Ibo, and northern Muslim peoples, is _____.

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Nigeria

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A local or regional outbreak of a disease is known as an epidemic.

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True

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Ghana was formerly known as the Gold Coast.

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True

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The Yoruba are the dominant ethnic group in The Congo.

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False

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Which of the following countries is not located in Southern Afirca?

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Cameroon

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The two groups who fought one another in Rwandan civil war are the:

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Hutus, Tutsis

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The Islamic Front is located on the northern fringes of the Sahara.

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False

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Which of the following countries is not located in West Africa?

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Somalia

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The country in Subsaharan country that has been Christian the longest is _____.

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Ethiopia

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Which of the following is a lingua franca is much of eastern Africa.

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Swahili

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Dar es Salaam is the capital of:

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Tanzania

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Africa's distributions of climate and vegetation are mostly symmetrical about the equator.

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True

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South Africa's Zulu nation is clustered in the Western Cape Province.

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False

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Namibia was once called Southwest Africa and was under South African control before independence.

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True

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Nigeria's dominant export commodity, produced in large quantities, is _____.

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oil

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Zambia, Sierra Leone, and Malawi were all British colonies.

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True

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Which of the following is associated with the concept of continental drift?

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Pangaea

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The great river of Southern Africa is the:

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Zambezi

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Which of the following countires was not a British colony prior to its independence?

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Ethiopia

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An example of a choke point in the realm is _____.

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The Babel Mandeb Strait

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The 1884 conference of all the major colonial powers that essentially drew the modern political map of Afirca, was held in the European city of _____.

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Berlin

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Which of the following countries was established by former American slaves?

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Liberia

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The upper basin of the Niger River has been an area of far greater cultural development over time than its coastal delta region.

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True

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The country that is located at the tip of the African Horn is _____.

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Somalia

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Sierra Leone was settled by former American slaves.

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False

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The Great Bantu Migration spread from north to south.

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True

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Which country has no dominant ethnic groups?

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Congo

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Senegal was the anchor of France's West African empire.

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True

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The edge of the African plateau in Southern Africa, where the feature is especially pronounced, is known as the Great _____.

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Escarpment.

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The supercontinent Pangea at one time joined together what is now Africa, South America, Antarctica, Australia, Maddagscar, and India.

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True

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The deadliest disease in Subsaharan Africa is _____.

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Malaria

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A unique aspect of Madagascar is that:

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The population is of Malay-Polynesian origin

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This country has the largest population of any in Africa:

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Nigeria

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The Congo was formerly known as _____.

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Zaire

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Eritrea is a region located in Sudan that has been fighting a war of independence since 1956.

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False

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Farmers in Subsaharan Africa are greatly assisted today by the advent of ____.

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the use of cell phones

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The bulk of West Africa's population is concentrated in the region's north.

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False

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The primary source areas for slaves during the slave trade were _____ and _____ Africa.

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West; Southern

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The only country in West Africa that is fully Islamic is Burkina Faso.

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True

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Land tneure refers to:

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The way people own, occupy, and use land.

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Most countries in the African Transition Zome have a _____ population in the north and a _____ population in the south.

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Muslim/Christain-animist

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Which of the following states was not a colony of France prior to its independence?

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Ghana

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This small country gains much of its importance because of its location on the Bab-el-Mandeb Straight at the mouth of the Red Sea.

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Djibouti

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Which two colonial powers dominated West Africa?

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Britain and France

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West Africa is Subsaharan Africa's most populous region.

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True

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Which of the following countries is not located in East Africa?

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Nigeria

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Sengal is a country in the Horn of Africa.

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False

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Where as West Africa's environmental zones are aligned in east-west belts, most of its states are oriented in a north-south direction.

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True

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People of Dutch ancestry in South Africa are called:

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Afrikaners

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Which of the following countries is not located in the African Transition Zone?

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Tanzania

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Southern Africa's mineral wealth is matched by its agricultural diversity.

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True

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Two countires that were originally part of German East Africa, but were granted to the Belgians after World War I are:

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Rwanda and Burundi

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Which of the following statements is incorrect?

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Due to Africa's difficult agricultrual environment, numerous environmental hazards, diseases and periodic food shortages, the continent's population growth rate is below the worldwide average.

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The name Tanzania derives from the merger of Tanganyika and Zanzibar.

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True

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Tanzania is East Africa's largest country in territorial as well as demographic terms, but never had dominant minorities in the way Kenya has had.

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True

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Rwanda and Burundi:

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are Africa's most densely populated countries

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Which of the following declared itself inependent in 1990s yet is part of the failed state known as Somalia?

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Somaliland

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The country of Lesotho is completely encircled by South Africa.

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True

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Most African families still depend on subsistence agriculture.

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True

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The Islamic Front is most correctly located within the African Transition Zone.

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True

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Which of the following countries is not located in Equatorial Africa?

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Ivory Coast

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Under the terms of the separate development program, South Africa's land was divided equally between the majority Africans and the minority whites.

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False

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The Brithish imported large numbers of South Asians to work on Africa's coastal plantations.

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True

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Nigeria is a major oil producer.

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True

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Which of the following is located in the African Transition Zone?

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The Islamic Front

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Which of the following statements about South Africa is incorrect?

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It contains significant untapped petroleum reserves.

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The first West Afircan state to gain its independence, formerly called the Gold Coast, is:

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Ghana

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Cabinda is:

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an exclave of Angola

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Ivory Coast and Ghana were both French colonies.

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False

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The Yoruba nation lives in Nigeria and the Zulu in South Africa.

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True

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Congo, Central African Rupublic, Uganda, and Equatorial Guinea are all located in Equatorial Africa.

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False

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The now-independent political entity that once was a German colony named South West Africa is today known as:

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Namibia

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Equatorial Africa is the most developed region of the realm.

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False

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