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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2: It's Coming, It's Coming, Pages 75 - 88.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was "B.K.-S.'s job?
(a) Purse attendant.
(b) Cloakroom attendant.
(c) Footman.
(d) Doorman.

2. What was done with the bodies of insurgents?
(a) They were hung from trees until the birds disposed of them.
(b) Buried at night in hidden, unknown places.
(c) Burned publicly.
(d) Their families were allowed to bury them.

3. What was the punishment even for minor offenses before Haile Selassie became emperor?
(a) Cut off hands and legs.
(b) Cut off ears.
(c) Disembowelment.
(d) Cut off fingers and toes.

4. What was another name for the Imperial Palace?
(a) Genete Leul.
(b) Danqaz.
(c) Entoto.
(d) Gondar.

5. What did the Palace children do when the Emperor left the Palace?
(a) Picked flowers from the lawn.
(b) Grazed goats on the lawn.
(c) Played ball on the lawn.
(d) Flew kites.

Short Answer Questions

1. What type of groves surrounded Addis Ababa in 1963?

2. Who aided the Emperor when he came to power?

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

4. Where did reports say that most of the murmurs and whispers were originating after the coup?

5. What did the masters of ceremony do when the Emperor left the capital?

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