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Question #1
Who supplied the labor on the royal farms of Songhai?
A.   War captives
B.   Tax debtors
C.   Slaves
D.   Indentured servants
Question #2
Which of these was true of the black population of eighteenth-century London?
A.   Most black Londoners were well-educated freemen.
B.   Most black Londoners were merchants and traders.
C.   Most black Londoners were agricultural laborers.
D.   Most black Londoners were sailors or personal servants.
Question #3
What important role did the Portuguese forts and markets at Kilwa, Zanzibar, and Sofala have?
A.   They represented the merging of Portuguese and Swahili trade powers.
B.   They continued to provide the independent Swahili city-states with money.
C.   They benefited the inland gold mines of Sofala by opening new markets.
D.   They became the foundation of Portuguese economic power on the Swahili coast.
Question #4
What was the justification for slavery adopted by African rulers that originated from Islamic societies?
A.   They rationalized it by saying slaves lacked immortal souls.
B.   They argued that Africans were an inferior race who were better off as slaves.
C.   They argued that prisoners of war could be sold and that captured people were chattel.
D.   They believed slavery was necessary for economic development.
Question #5
What was the chief means of transport for the West African salt trade?
A.   Camels
B.   Slaves
C.   Donkey caravans
D.   Horse-drawn carts
Question #6
Swahili independence ended with the arrival in 1498 of which Portuguese explorer?
A.   Giovanni da Verrazzano
B.   Prince Henry the Navigator
C.   Vasco da Gama
D.   Ferdinand Magellan
Question #7
By the eleventh century, what important change had the Swahili peoples made?
A.   They converted to Islam.
B.   The majority had become full-time farmers.
C.   They developed trade with Portugal.
D.   They established a large inland empire.
Question #8
Which of these was the greatest killer in West Africa?
A.   Yellow fever
B.   Hookworm
C.   Malaria
D.   Typhoid
Question #9
What West African industry had the greatest level of specialization?
A.   Salt mining
B.   Iron working
C.   Textiles
D.   Gold working
Question #10
Scholars have determined that the transatlantic slave trade had what effect on African societies?
A.   It hastened the Christianization of the sub-Sahara.
B.   It led to wars that destabilized the political structure of many states.
C.   It led to technological development because of population decline.
D.   It laid the foundation for European colonies.
Question #11
Who were the nhara?
A.   Dahomey slave raiders
B.   Women slave merchants in Guinea
C.   People of mixed African and European heritage
D.   Female slaves taken as concubines by their owners
Question #12
Between 1690 and 1807, which European nation was the leading participant in the transatlantic slave trade?
A.   Portugal
B.   Spain
C.   France
D.   England
Question #13
How were chattel slaves viewed?
A.   They had the right to inherit land and wealth.
B.   They were commodities that were considered subhuman property.
C.   Usually, they were slaves who had status and power.
D.   Most were considered to be members of the owner's family.
Question #14
In the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, who did the elite of Mali and Benin import to be slaves?
A.   Yoruba children
B.   Berber women
C.   Slavic women
D.   Songhai warriors
Question #15
In the fifteenth century, Kano and Katsina in Hausaland became centers for which of the following?
A.   Islamic scholarship
B.   African-style feudalism
C.   Artistic creativity
D.   Transatlantic slave trade
Question #16
In the stateless societies of Senegambia, which of the following contributed to community loyalty and law enforcement?
A.   Communitywide assemblies
B.   Strong, patriarchal clans
C.   Age-grade systems
D.   Gender-specific roles
Question #17
What missionary group attempted to introduce Roman Catholicism into Ethiopia in the sixteenth century?
A.   Jesuits
B.   Franciscans
C.   Benedictines
D.   Dominicans

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