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  1. Mohandas Gandhi is best known for using which method to win Indian independence?

    • (A) Guerrilla warfare
    • (B) Diplomatic negotiations only
    • (C) Nonviolent civil disobedience
    • (D) Conventional military action

  2. The Salt March of 1930 is significant as:

    • (A) Britain's response to Indian nationalism
    • (B) A canonical example of Gandhi's nonviolent civil disobedience against British rule
    • (C) A communist uprising
    • (D) A military victory over Britain

  3. The partition of India in 1947 resulted in:

    • (A) The creation of India and Pakistan along with massive population transfer and communal violence
    • (B) A unified Indian state
    • (C) The continuation of British rule
    • (D) The annexation of India by China

  4. Muhammad Ali Jinnah is best known as:

    • (A) The first prime minister of India
    • (B) The founder of Pakistan
    • (C) The leader of the British colonial government
    • (D) The first secretary-general of the United Nations

  5. The Balfour Declaration of 1917 stated British support for:

    • (A) Indian independence
    • (B) The establishment of a Jewish national home in Palestine
    • (C) Arab unity
    • (D) German territorial demands

  6. The State of Israel was founded in:

    • (A) 1917
    • (B) 1945
    • (C) 1948
    • (D) 1967

  7. As a result of the Six-Day War of 1967, Israel acquired:

    • (A) Lebanon and Syria
    • (B) The Sinai Peninsula, Golan Heights, West Bank, East Jerusalem, and Gaza Strip
    • (C) Northern Iraq
    • (D) The Sudan

  8. The Camp David Accords of 1978 produced peace between:

    • (A) Israel and Syria
    • (B) Israel and Egypt
    • (C) India and Pakistan
    • (D) North and South Korea

  9. Ghana became independent in 1957 under the leadership of:

    • (A) Jomo Kenyatta
    • (B) Kwame Nkrumah
    • (C) Léopold Senghor
    • (D) Patrice Lumumba

  10. The Algerian War of Independence (1954–1962) was fought against:

    • (A) Britain
    • (B) Belgium
    • (C) France
    • (D) Italy

  11. Apartheid was the official policy of:

    • (A) Egypt
    • (B) South Africa from 1948 to 1994
    • (C) Nigeria
    • (D) Algeria

  12. Which of the following best describes Bantustans under apartheid?

    • (A) White-only neighborhoods in Cape Town
    • (B) Rural "homelands" used to deny Black South Africans citizenship rights
    • (C) Trade agreements between South Africa and Europe
    • (D) Universities for Black students

  13. Nelson Mandela spent how many years in prison?

    • (A) 5
    • (B) 12
    • (C) 27
    • (D) 40

  14. Nelson Mandela became the first Black president of South Africa in:

    • (A) 1976
    • (B) 1990
    • (C) 1994
    • (D) 2000

  15. The Truth and Reconciliation Commission was created to:

    • (A) Try and execute apartheid-era officials
    • (B) Investigate apartheid-era crimes through testimony and conditional amnesty
    • (C) Restore the apartheid government
    • (D) Establish a new economic policy

  16. The Iranian Revolution of 1979 resulted in:

    • (A) Restoration of the Shah
    • (B) Establishment of the Islamic Republic of Iran under Ayatollah Khomeini
    • (C) Iranian alliance with the United States
    • (D) Iranian annexation of Iraq

  17. The Non-Aligned Movement (1961) was an effort to:

    • (A) Form a third superpower bloc
    • (B) Allow newly independent nations to avoid alignment with either the U.S. or the USSR
    • (C) Re-establish European empires
    • (D) Promote European unity

  18. A common feature of post-colonial African states:

    • (A) Borders carefully drawn to match ethnic boundaries
    • (B) Borders inherited from European colonial decisions that grouped hostile peoples or split single peoples between states
    • (C) Borders established by African nationalist movements at the Berlin Conference
    • (D) Borders established by the United Nations after WWII
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