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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who was the legal heir to the throne when Haile Selassie came to power?
(a) Wossen.
(b) Lij Yasu.
(c) Zawditu.
(d) Menilek.

2. When some complained about development, what did they say that some of the people could not afford?
(a) To feed their children.
(b) To buy new clothing.
(c) A pair of shoes.
(d) To buy land.

3. Where was the television journalist from who visited Ethiopia in 1973?
(a) Madrid.
(b) Paris.
(c) Hamburg.
(d) London.

4. In a quote on page 94, who could fall?
(a) Competitive dancers.
(b) Hockey players.
(c) Competitive figure skaters.
(d) Tightrope walkers.

5. What was the name of a television documentary about the Ethiopian famine?
(a) Starvation and Death.
(b) Famine in Africa.
(c) Ethiopia: The Unknown Famine.
(d) The Famine of 1973.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many of the men the Emperor trusted implicitly participated in the coup?

2. What was wrong with the flagship Ethiopia?

3. Who denounced the rebels headed by Germame and had leaflets dropped by plane?

4. What trivial event organized by the American Peace Corps set off a revolution?

5. What division rebelled in Eritrea?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why was General Beleta Abebe arrested and held by his soldiers?

2. Why did everyone especially wish to travel with the Emperor when he was visiting a foreign country?

3. How did foreign news correspondents obtain information about famine in the north of Ethiopia in 1973?

4. What post did the Emperor assign to Germame?

5. Why was "N.L.E." fired from his job as titular clerk?

6. Why did soldiers start a rebellion and arrest their superiors in the province of Sidamo?

7. What had to be done to clean up the mess in the Palace after the coup ended?

8. What did international aid workers discover when they came to help the starving people of Ethiopia?

9. According to "G.O.-E," why must the Emperor have gone to bed after the coup never knowing if he would wake in the morning?

10. Describe what the mortar man, "M.S." did.

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