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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. Who was the one person that the Emperor had difficulty believing had betrayed him during the coup?
(a) Dereji.
(b) Workneh.
(c) Dibou.
(d) Kassa.

2. After the coup, who grumbled when the "personal people" began to fill the Palace offices?
(a) Crown Council.
(b) The Security Office.
(c) The aristocrats.
(d) The head of the Palace guards.

3. What did children do while their parents were eating in the old days?
(a) Stood with their faces to the wall.
(b) Served their parents.
(c) Kept a prone position until the parents finished eating.
(d) Stood and watch their parents eat.

4. What was the last year of the Emperor's reign?
(a) 1975.
(b) 1972.
(c) 1974.
(d) 1973.

5. What was the name of a television documentary about the Ethiopian famine?
(a) Ethiopia: The Unknown Famine.
(b) Starvation and Death.
(c) Famine in Africa.
(d) The Famine of 1973.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did "Z.S.-K" say could lead "one right to the noose"?

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

3. In a quote on page 107, what was the name of the Emperor whose head would disappear?

4. What misfortune happened to "Z.S.-K"?

5. Who led the Jailers faction?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How was the national budget divided?

3. 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?

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

5. Why were dignitaries from Sidamo upset with Germame?

6. Why did the soldiers in Eritrea want humane funerals?

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

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

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

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

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