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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. What was wrong with the flagship Ethiopia?

2. What was done with the bodies of insurgents?

3. How many of the men the Emperor trusted implicitly participated in the coup?

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

5. What was the name of a television documentary about the Ethiopian famine?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Describe Makonen.

5. Why were dignitaries from Sidamo upset with Germame?

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

7. 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?

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the factions in the Palace in the 1970s and how each faction wanted to deal with the revolutionaries.

Essay Topic 3

Compare and contrast the Emperor's thrift with his extravagances.

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