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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. What dollar amount required approval from the Emperor before making an expenditure?
(a) More than $20.
(b) More than $10.
(c) More than $15
(d) More than $5.

2. From which of the palace factions were positions like Minister of the Pen or political police filled?
(a) Aristocrats.
(b) Landowners.
(c) Personal people.
(d) Bureaucrats.

3. What were flown in for the reception held in 1963 for the leaders of the independent African nations?
(a) Wine and caviar.
(b) Champagne.
(c) Escargot.
(d) Exotic flowers.

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

5. What singer was brought to serenade the leaders of the independent African nations in 1963?
(a) Miriam Makeba.
(b) Mimi Coertse.
(c) Illana May.
(d) Laurika Rauch.

Short Answer Questions

1. How long did "G.S.-D" perform the job of placing a pillow under the Emperor's feet?

2. What did the Emperor weigh in his old age?

3. Which ministers would be favored by the Emperor?

4. On page 5, "F" discusses a duty that he had to perform for ten years. What was this duty?

5. What was the name of the dog that slept on the Emperor's bed?

Short Essay Questions

1. What punishments did the Emperor abolish at the beginning of his reign?

2. What happened to get Prince Imru exiled for 20 years?

3. Why did the foreign news correspondents decide not to complain to the Emperor about the communications arrangements?

4. In 1963, what did Kapuscinski see when he went outside to find a quiet place at the African leaders' reception?

5. What was Addis Ababa like in 1963?

6. Why did a pillow have to be placed beneath the Emperor's feet when he was sitting on his throne?

7. What were the Emperor's sleeping habits?

8. After the revolution, what happened to many of the people who had been people of the Palace?

9. How did the Emperor's visits to the provinces drain the treasury?

10. What was the fetasha?

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