Georgia's Exploring Our World: Africa, Southwest Asia, and Southern and Eastern Asia © 2012

Chapter 3: Africa Today

Self-Check Quizzes

1
The ______ controls the Nile's floodwaters.
A)Aswān High Dam
B)Suez Canal
C)aquifer
D)casbah
2
What is Egypt's main energy resource?
A)natural gas
B)hydroelectric power
C)oil
D)diamonds
3
A _____ is an effort to punish a country by refusing to buy its products.
A)policy
B)trade sanction
C)legislature
D)letter of refusal
4
Why does food have to be imported into Nigeria?
A)The soil is unsuitable for farming.
B)The country is landlocked.
C)Farmers focus on cash crops.
D)Civil war prevents farming.
5
The official language of the Democratic Republic of the Congo is _____.
A)Dutch
B)Swahili
C)English
D)French
6
Tourism is important to Kenya's economy thanks to the country's _____.
A)desert landscape
B)large system of national parks
C)beaches on the Atlantic Ocean
D)diamond mines
7
What is the reason for conflict in Rwanda and Burundi?
A)ethnic differences
B)fighting over oil resources
C)treaties with other nations
D)growing ecotourism
8
Which country has the most developed economy in Africa?
A)Botswana
B)South Africa
C)Egypt
D)Nigeria
9
The republic of South Africa's system of apartheid ended in the _____.
A)early 1970s
B)late 1990s
C)early 1990s
D)late 1880s
10
For goods and markets, both Lesotho and Swaziland rely on _____.
A)the United States
B)France
C)the Democratic Republic of the Congo
D)South Africa
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