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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What department caused problems with the peasants?
(a) The Department of Agriculture.
(b) The Treasury.
(c) The Department of Development.
(d) The Finance Ministry.

2. When did the Emperor become the first monarch in the history of Ethiopia travel to another country?
(a) 1924.
(b) 1915.
(c) 1921.
(d) 1928.

3. Where did the Emperor travel in order to make an official cruise?
(a) Eritrea.
(b) Tigre.
(c) Shewa.
(d) Wello.

4. How many people served on a revolutionary council established by Germame?
(a) Eighteen.
(b) Twenty-seven.
(c) Twenty.
(d) Twenty-four.

5. What division rebelled in Eritrea?
(a) Second division.
(b) Third division.
(c) First division.
(d) Fourth division.

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

7. Besides students, who else died in a demonstration the students held after the peasant uprising?
(a) Innocent bystanders.
(b) A general.
(c) Policeman.
(d) Army officers.

8. On page 108, what was "M.S.'s" job?
(a) Doorman.
(b) Protocol.
(c) Requisitions.
(d) Mortarman.

9. What was Akilu's position in the government?
(a) Premier.
(b) Footman.
(c) Minister.
(d) Doorman.

10. Who wrote, "It is an amazing thing, the extraordinary feeling of security..."?
(a) de Lafayette.
(b) Rabelais.
(c) Rousseau.
(d) de Tocqueville.

11. When did the peasants rebel?
(a) 1971.
(b) 1963.
(c) 1968.
(d) 1960.

12. When was a demonstration held by students after the peasant uprising?
(a) The beginning of 1969.
(b) The end of 1970.
(c) The end of 1969.
(d) The beginning of 1970.

13. When does "F.U.-H." say that the end of the Empire began?
(a) 1970.
(b) 1959.
(c) 1965.
(d) 1960.

14. Where did the Emperor's grandson flee when the navy rebelled?
(a) Hargeysa.
(b) Addis Ababa.
(c) Khartoum.
(d) Djibouti.

15. How many people lived in Ethiopia in 1973?
(a) 10 million.
(b) 15 million.
(c) 25 million.
(d) 30 million.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the 1930s, who invaded Ethiopia?

2. After the coup, who grumbled when the "personal people" began to fill the Palace offices?

3. Who was the one person that the Emperor had difficulty believing had betrayed him during the coup?

4. Where was the Third Division stationed during all the strikes and rebellions?

5. What television journalist came to Ethiopia in 1973?

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