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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 Germame's brother's position in the government?
(a) Chief of Information.
(b) Chief of the Palace Guard.
(c) Chief of the Imperial Guard.
(d) Chief of Security.

2. In a quote on page 107, what was the name of the Emperor whose head would disappear?
(a) Claudius.
(b) Augustus.
(c) Tiberius.
(d) Justinian.

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

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

5. What was "Z.S.-K.'s" son's name?
(a) Desta.
(b) Bekele.
(c) Hagos.
(d) Hailu.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did the Emperor travel in late 1960?

2. How many people served on a revolutionary council established by Germame?

3. What was the Emperor's father's name?

4. How many people lived in Ethiopia in 1973?

5. Why did taxi drivers go on strike?

Short Essay Questions

1. How was the national budget divided?

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

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

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

5. What did Mengistu say when he faced a court martial for his part in the coup with Germame?

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

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

8. What happened during a student demonstration in 1969?

9. Why did the overseas benefactors begin suspending shipments of food to feed the starving?

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

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