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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 was hauled off in trucks after the coup?
(a) Heaps of broken furniture and boxes full of empty shells.
(b) Dead bodies.
(c) Weapons and ammunition.
(d) Glass from broken windows and mirrors.

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

3. How many years did "F.U.-H.'s" have his government job?
(a) Twenty years.
(b) Fifteen years.
(c) Five years.
(d) Ten years.

4. Who aided the Emperor when he came to power?
(a) The Italians.
(b) The United States.
(c) European embassies.
(d) The British.

5. In what province did soldiers start a rebellion and arrest their superiors?
(a) Kaffa.
(b) Sidamo.
(c) Bale.
(d) Arsi.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was grown in the region where Germame held a government position?

2. In a quote on page 94, who could fall?

3. What was "F.U.-H.'s" job?

4. Why did taxi drivers go on strike?

5. Besides students, who else died in a demonstration the students held after the peasant uprising?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did the Emperor make it acceptable to raise the taxes the peasants had to pay?

2. 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?

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

4. How did the Emperor try to keep the people from thinking about the conditions in Ethiopia?

5. What were some of the new developments begun after the coup?

6. Who were some of the innocents killed during the coup?

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

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

9. Why were dignitaries from Sidamo upset with Germame?

10. Why did the Emperor introduce the Army-Police Hour?

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