About half of the Congo Free State died between 1885 and 1908 as a result of:
brutal treatment by European companies.
CORRECT!
the Boer War.
a yellow fever epidemic.
Jihadists.
Why did westerners in the early 1800s call Africa the “Dark Continent”?
they knew very little about the land.
CORRECT!
they got a lot of coal from Africa.
the sun rarely shone on Africa.
the overgrowth in the rain forests made it dark.
Discovery of a treatment for which disease allowed Europeans to venture into the African interior?
malaria.
CORRECT!
smallpox.
tuberculosis.
scarlet fever.
The “Scramble for Africa” led to the European colonization of the whole African continent EXCEPT
Liberia and Ethiopia.
CORRECT!
Egypt and South Africa.
Nigeria and Morocco.
Kenya and the Congo.
Cecil Rhodes made his African fortune by:
mining gold and diamonds.
CORRECT!!
planting bananas, melons, and other exotic fruits.
building steamships that sailed up and down the Nile River.
planting and processing rubber.
Colonial officials often discouraged native peoples from:
practicing traditional customs and rituals.
CORRECT!!
learning European languages.
converting to Christianity.
adopting Western lifestyles.
After many Kenyans died fighting the Germans in World War I, the British:
allowed European settlers to seize the land of the native Kenyans.
CORRECT!!
granted Kenya full independence.
asked Jomo Kenyatta to help further Kenyan nationalism.
let Harry Thuku govern Kenya for them.
Britain wanted to establish a colony in southern Africa to:
protest the route to India.
CORRECT!!
train missionaries for work in Africa.
provide a homeland for former slaves.
control the Dutch missionaries there.
Which nation adopted and then largely abandoned the policy of assimilation in Africa?
France
CORRECT!!
Britain
The United States
Belgium
Until the late 1800s, Europeans were discouraged from conquering Africa by all of the following EXCPEPT:
Social Darwinism.
CORRECT!!
malaria.
impassable rivers.
powerful African armies.
Which of the following was NOT a goal of independent African explorers?
stirring up political unrest so that their imperial sponsors could move in and take advantage of the resulting chaos.
CORRECT!!
finding the source of Africa’s mighty rivers.
assessing the continent’s possible mineral wealth.
scouting out locations for possible Christian missions.
[Quiz originally from here]