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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What was grown in the region where Germame held a government position?
(a) Pulses.
(b) Sorghum.
(c) Coffee.
(d) Barley.
2. How many years did "F.U.-H.'s" have his government job?
(a) Five years.
(b) Ten years.
(c) Fifteen years.
(d) Twenty years.
3. What were peasants doing to policemen?
(a) Bashing in their skills.
(b) Ambushing them.
(c) Hanging them.
(d) Running them out of town.
4. What department caused problems with the peasants?
(a) The Department of Development.
(b) The Finance Ministry.
(c) The Treasury.
(d) The Department of Agriculture.
5. Who wrote, "It is an amazing thing, the extraordinary feeling of security..."?
(a) Rabelais.
(b) de Tocqueville.
(c) de Lafayette.
(d) Rousseau.
6. What was Germame's brother's position in the government?
(a) Chief of Information.
(b) Chief of the Palace Guard.
(c) Chief of Security.
(d) Chief of the Imperial Guard.
7. What did lackeys do in the Palace after the coup?
(a) Cleaned the floors.
(b) Took down torn and partly burned curtains.
(c) Sanded soaked-in bloodstains from the parquet.
(d) Swept up broken glass.
8. On page 108, what was "M.S.'s" job?
(a) Protocol.
(b) Requisitions.
(c) Doorman.
(d) Mortarman.
9. When was a demonstration held by students after the peasant uprising?
(a) The end of 1970.
(b) The beginning of 1969.
(c) The beginning of 1970.
(d) The end of 1969.
10. Who was the one person that the Emperor had difficulty believing had betrayed him during the coup?
(a) Kassa.
(b) Dereji.
(c) Workneh.
(d) Dibou.
11. How many people lived in Ethiopia in 1973?
(a) 10 million.
(b) 30 million.
(c) 25 million.
(d) 15 million.
12. Who led the Jailers faction?
(a) Mihret Bogalech.
(b) Nigist Ken.
(c) Abebech Alem.
(d) Tenene Work.
13. Who was the legal heir to the throne when Haile Selassie came to power?
(a) Zawditu.
(b) Wossen.
(c) Lij Yasu.
(d) Menilek.
14. After the coup, what group began to grumble and speak unreasonably and insultingly against the Palace?
(a) The aristocrats.
(b) The peasants.
(c) The students.
(d) The ministers.
15. Who did the Emperor raise to the post of premier after all the strikes and rebellions?
(a) Endelkachew.
(b) Akililu.
(c) Abebe.
(d) Deresa.
Short Answer Questions
1. What position did the Emperor give Germame?
2. After the coup, who grumbled when the "personal people" began to fill the Palace offices?
3. What was "Z.S.-K.'s" son's mood when a misfortune happened to "Z.S.-K."?
4. What student leader died in a demonstration held by the students after the peasant uprising?
5. What did the Emperor do as a child to show humility to his father?
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