Test Your Knowledge of Africa and Her Peoples

Black History is often put aside for February when acknowledgment is made to the many deserving contributors of African American history. The reality is that Africans of the motherland and diaspora have a rich tapestry of history that is deliberately denied by the ruling elite so as to condition the minds they seek to rule.

If you are not Black take the test anyways to see just how much you know about the first family on earth, if you are Black test yourself and see how well you "know thyself"

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1. Who is the father of modern medicine?
Hippocrates
Imhotep
Socrates
2. Is Africa accurately scaled to size on our modern maps of the world?
Yes
No
3. Compared to other parts of the world, Africa is underpopulated?
True
False
4. Is evolution is a scientific fact?
Yes - all of us came from amoebas and have grown over the millineum
No - creationism is the only truth
Yes - but I'm not sure why, it's always taught in school and seems to make sense
No - there is a difference between evolution and adaptation
5. Many Egyptian statues and busts have their noses missing? Why is that?
They were poorly constructed
Time and weather elements
To hide the most obvious feature that denotes them as Black
6. Which event authorized the illegal dividing up of Africa amongst European countries?
The League of Nations
The Berlin Conference
Summit of the G7
7. Giovanni Belzoni was commissioned to remove a large granite bust of one of which pharaoh?
Tut
Menses
Ramsess II
8. Modern day Iraq is known as what country in the Bible?
Babylon
Assyria
Cush
The Promised Land
9. The Middle East was once known as a part of Africa inhabited by descendants of Ethiopia?
True
False
10. The oldest known university is located where?
Mali
Britain
Egypt
China
11. Cry Freedom is based in part on the life of which Freedom Fighter?
Mandela
Steven Biko
Malcolm X
Martin Luther King Jr.
12. Apartheid was a political and social system of racial segregation with whites having the most rights and Black (Bantu) having none. This system was found where?
Zimbabwe
Congo
Sierra Leone
South Africa
13. Meditation, Kaballah, and Yoga can be traced back to Egypt?
True
False
14. The Greatest Dynasty in Egyptian history was ruled by which nation?
The Romans
The Persians
The Hyksos
The Nubians
15. What is the original name of Egypt
Kemet
Aegypticus
Mizrain
Sudan
16. The land of Nubia is known today as what country
Tanzania
Morrocco
Sudan
Congo
17. Wonders of the African World was a 12 part series hosted and written by whom?
Maya Angelou
Spike Lee
Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
18. Pan Africanism can be loosely defined as : The idea of unity amongst Africans of the homeland and Africans all over the world to develop political, economic and cultural power
True
False
19. Marcus Garvey was born where?
The United States
Ghana
Jamaica
20. The first country to hold a successful slave rebellion that resulted in the first independant black republic is?
Haiti
Guyana
Jamaica
Trinidad
21. Africans were living in America before the slave trade?
True
False
22. "A Destiny to Mould" is the biography of whom?
Bob Marley
Forbes Burnham
Harriet Tubman
23. The great military general who conquered much of Spain and Italy is?
Ramsess I
Menelek
Hannibal
24. Maat is an Egyptian goddess that relates to which qualities?
Beauty and Love
Divine Vengeance
Truth, Order and Justice
Healing
25. The Yoruba tribe were well known for their proficiency in art, music, dance and divination?
True
False
26. Queen Makeda was known by another popular name, what is it?
Sheba
Cleopatra
Candace
27. The last successful military resistance in Northern Africa was led by which leader?
Queen Kahina
Menelek II
Queen of Sheba
Osie Tutu
28. Which author won a Nobel Prize for literature?
Maya Angelou
Toni Morrison
Alice Walker
29. "The Birth of a Nation" produced in 1915 was a message of white supremacy and Klu Klux Klan endorsement, which President gave it praise
Eisenhower
Nixon
Wilson
Bush
30. The obelisks found in the Vatican were stolen from Egypt
True
False

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