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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. When some complained about development, what did they say that some of the people could not afford?

2. What was Makonen's position in the government?

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

4. Where did the Emperor's grandson flee when the navy rebelled?

5. What was wrong with the flagship Ethiopia?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happened during a student demonstration in 1969?

2. What post did the Emperor assign to Germame?

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

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

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

6. How did foreign news correspondents obtain information about famine in the north of Ethiopia in 1973?

7. What did the people do to protect themselves from informers?

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

9. How did the Emperor keep track of the new developments that were being built?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss some of the uncommon jobs that servants had to perform in the Palace and how some of these jobs were viewed by outsiders.

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the 1960 coup and why it failed.

Essay Topic 3

Compare and contrast life for the Emperor, ministers, and dignitaries to the life that the peasants lived.

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