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1. What is meant by “animist beliefs”?
)The use of rituals and ceremonies to control the natural world
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Aroundthe year C.E. 1000, which African kingdom was probably the world’s mostimportant gold producer?
b) The Kingdom of Ghana
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.What West African kingdom began to grow in power as the kingdom of Ghanadeclined?
)The Kingdom of Benin
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Which African kingdom flourished in the 1300s, 1400s, and early 1500s?
)The Kingdom of Zimbabwe
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.What position was held by the “Oba” of Benin?
absolutemonarch
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What is the name of the greatest stone ruins yet found in southern Africa?
)Great Zimbabwe
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.During the Middle Ages, what new religion was introduced into sub-Saharan Africa?
Islam
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. What language was used in early African literature?
Arabic
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9. What language influenced Swahili?
c) Arabic
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10. Who was the most important writer and thinker of twentieth-century Senegal?
b) Leopold Senghor
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. Who, in 1986, was the first African to receive the Nobel prize for literature?
c) Wole Soyinka
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12. What is the subject of Mofolo’s Chaka?
TheZulu king Shaka
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13. Why was Mofolo’s Chaka not published until 1925?
Themissionary press refused to publish it
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14. What political position did Leopold Senghor hold from 1960 until his retirement in 1980?
d) President of Senegal
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15. What was the title of Chinua Achebe’s first book (published in 1948)?
a) Things Fall Apart
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16. What was the source of the title Things Fall Apart?
c) A line from a poem of W.B.Yeats
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17. What is generally considered to be the both the first novel (1906) by an African and the first written in an African language?
b) Traveler of the East
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8. Why was Achebe criticized for writing in English?
)It seemed a capitulation to English colonialism
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9. What was Achebe’s defense for writing in English?
a) It could reach the largest audience
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20. What has been the primary function of traditional African art?
b) For social and ritual purposes
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21. Why until recently would the idea of a museum or gallery be alien to African art?
c) Art was considered functional rather than purely aesthetic
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22. How have themes of colonization and the impact of the West become integrated in African art?
b) It incorporates elements of colonial and traditional African culture
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23. What type of African art was used to transform or to conceal identities?
b) Highly stylized masks
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24. What great twentieth-century artist was greatly influenced by the art of African masks?
d) Picasso
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Whatimportant type of American music derives ultimately from the African ancestorsof African-Americans?
b) Jazz
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