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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. Where did the Emperor travel in late 1960?
(a) Bolivia.
(b) Brazil.
(c) Columbia.
(d) Peru.

2. What was hauled off in trucks after the coup?
(a) Dead bodies.
(b) Weapons and ammunition.
(c) Heaps of broken furniture and boxes full of empty shells.
(d) Glass from broken windows and mirrors.

3. Where was the Third Division stationed during all the strikes and rebellions?
(a) Harshin.
(b) Dire Dawa.
(c) Ogaden.
(d) Ginir.

4. What were peasants doing to policemen?
(a) Running them out of town.
(b) Hanging them.
(c) Ambushing them.
(d) Bashing in their skills.

5. What did "Z.S.-K" say could lead "one right to the noose"?
(a) Clandestine clapping.
(b) Walking too quickly.
(c) Looking someone in the eye.
(d) Walking too slowly.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the Emperor do as a child to show humility to his father?

2. Where was Germame sent when the Emperor heard about his land giveaways?

3. After the coup, what group began to grumble and speak unreasonably and insultingly against the Palace?

4. What did children do while their parents were eating in the old days?

5. What student leader died in a demonstration held by the students after the peasant uprising?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happened during a student demonstration in 1969?

2. Describe Makonen.

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

4. 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?

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

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

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

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

9. Describe what the mortar man, "M.S." did.

10. Why did everyone especially wish to travel with the Emperor when he was visiting a foreign country?

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