History questions?

[A.s.]

1: The coca plant is used in parts of the world to produce the narcotic cocaine. As part of the War on Drugs, the U.S. has promoted a strategy of eliminating the cultivation of coca. Why do Evo Morales and the cocalero movement believe that the coca plant should not be eliminated?
Because coca leaves are sacred
Because Morales and the cocaleros do not understand the effects of cocaine
Because coca leaves (not cocaine) have been chewed by indigenous peoples for thousands of years
Both A and C
Both B and C


2: Who won the presidency of the first multi-racial vote in South Africa in 1994?
Frederik Willem de Klerk
Desmond Tutu
Nelson Mandela
P.W. Botha
None of the above


3: In India, prejudice against the Dalits, or the outcaste people, is a product of what system?
The dharma system
The sanyasa system
The caste system
The chaste system
The samsara system


4: Today, most Kurds live in Iraq, Turkey, and what two other countries?
India and Syria
Iran and Pakistan
Syria and Iran
Pakistan and Syria
Iran and Saudi Arabia


5: The modern state of Saudi Arabia has an economy based on:
Farming and oil
Salt and textiles
Textiles and farming
Farming and salt
Oil


6: Why is little known about South Africa prior to the arrival of European explorers?
Because the land was uninhabited prior to Europeans
Because the people who lived in South Africa did not write
Because the people who lived in South Africa did not keep their written records from deteriorating
Because the old records were burned
None of the above


7: What was the official religion of the First Saudi State?
Islam
Sunni Islam
Wahhabism
Shi’a Islam
Sufism


8: The Tiwanaku was a civilization of:
The Inca
The Aztec
The Maya
The Chilean people
The Aymara people


9: (Fill in the blank.) In Hindu philosophy, __________ is the liberation from material existence and from the cycle of birth and death. The attainment of ________ results in ultimate happiness.
Dharma (religious duties or righteousness)
Samsara (reincarnation/rebirth)
Kama (pleasure)
Moksha (salvation)
Artha (material wealth)


10: According to the homeland system of Apartheid:
Whites withdrew to a small area of South Africa
Blacks were given back their homeland
Blacks were given more rights
Blacks could vote
None of the above


11: In 1989, the army of what country carried out a genocidal campaign against Kurds?
Iran
Saudi Arabia
Syria
Iraq
India


12: The legal system of the ancient Hawaiians was based on the system of:
Kauwa
Kahuna
Kapu
Maka’ainana
Ali’l


13: How did Polynesians get to Hawaii?
By cruise ship
By canoe
With the use of astronomy
Two of the above
None of the above


14: What is the religion of the majority of Kurds?
Yazidism
Islam
Christianity
Sufism
Hinduism


15: What was the impact of the Treaty of reciprocity between the U.S. and the Hawaiian Kingdom (1875)?
Influx of Asian immigrants
U.S. established the Pearl Harbor naval base
Sugar cane and plantation agriculture grew very much
Two of the above
All of the above


16: In their traditional way of life, the Bedouin lived in:
Teepees
Tents
Huts
Lean-to’s
Caves


17: Who were the Trek Boers in South Africa?
They spoke Afrikaans
A British military force
Wandering farmers
Two of the above
None of the above


18: The Truth and Reconciliation Commission:
Followed apartheid
Pardoned all crimes committed during apartheid
Pardoned those who confessed completely
Both A and B
Both A and C


19: The group of people who were labeled "Colored" during apartheid:
Included people of mixed Bantu, Khoisan, and European descent
Received the same rights and privileges as people who were labeled "White"
Were not discriminated against during apartheid
Two of the above
None of the above


20: Who are said to be the cultural ancestors of the Arab world?
The Wahhabis
The Salafis
The Mutaween
Bedouin
Shari’ah


21: The Vedas are:
The texts on which Hinduism is based
Associated with the Vedic civilization of India
Dated to before 1500 BC
Two of the above
All of the above


22: (Choose the best answer.) Gandhi’s principles were drawn from the traditional Hindu beliefs of:
Satya (truth)
Ahimsa (nonviolence)
Moksha (salvation)
Two of the above
All of the above


23: What is the most populous city in South Africa and the second most populous in sub-Saharan Africa?
Khartoum
Cape Town
Johannesburg
Casablanca
Tripoli


24: Muhammad himself claimed that:
All Arabs should unite in the new religion of Islam
He did not preach a new religion, but the old and pure tradition that Christians and Jews had dishonored
He was the last of the prophets to mankind
Both A and C
Both B and C


25: When Captain Cook first arrived at Hawaii:
He was killed by the natives
He enslaved the islanders that greeted him
He killed the islanders that greeted him
He was taken for a god
None of the above