Ch21Sec2Quiz

DIRECTIONS: Matching Match each item in Column A with an item in Column B.

Write the correct letters in the blanks. (10 points each)

Column A

1. shortcut between Europe and Asia

2. Scottish explorer, missionary, and doctor

3. nineteenth-century Egyptian ruler

4. Dutch settlers in South Africa

5. incorporate a country within another state

Column B

A. Muhammad Ali

B. David

Livingstone

C. Afrikaners

D. annex

E. Suez Canal

DIRECTIONS: Multiple Choice In the blank, write the letter of the choice that best

completes the statement or answers the question. (10 points each)

6. All of the following powers had colonies in West Africa by 1900, EXCEPT

A. Britain. C. the United States.

B. Germany. D. France.

7. After the opening of the Suez Canal in 1869, Britain

A. sold its share in the canal to France. C. seized Morocco and Tunisia.

B. took an active interest in Egypt. D. removed all troops from Egypt.

8. After its defeat in Ethiopia in 1896, Italy

A. abandoned its interest in colonialism. C. attacked the Suez Canal.

B. negotiated indirect rule. D. seized Tripoli.

9. In the late nineteenth century, the real driving force behind colonization

of Central Africa was

A. Germany. C. British queen Victoria.

B. Leopold II of Belgium. D. Italy.

10. By 1914, the only independent states in Africa were

A. Liberia and Ethiopia. C. South Africa and Congo.

B. Rhodesia and Egypt. D. Togo and Sudan.