AP AFAM Semester 1 Exam

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60 questions

Instructions

This exam contains 60 multiple-choice questions from Units 1 & 2 (up to topic 2.22).

Each question on this exam is followed by 4 suggested answers. Select the best answer to each question. 

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Draggable item		Corresponding Item
Songhai		The largest Sudanic empire, declined due to the shift from trans-Saharan to Atlantic trade.
Ghana		Known for its wealth in gold mines and being the earliest Sudanic empire to emerge.
Mali		Flourished under Mansa Musa, known for his pilgrimage to Mecca and promotion of Islam.

Draggable item		Corresponding Item
Songhai		The largest Sudanic empire, declined due to the shift from trans-Saharan to Atlantic trade.
Ghana		Known for its wealth in gold mines and being the earliest Sudanic empire to emerge.
Mali		Flourished under Mansa Musa, known for his pilgrimage to Mecca and promotion of Islam.

AP AFAM Semester 1 Exam

AP AFAM Semester 1 Exam

Source: Selections of letters written to newspapers from Call and Response, 1831–1841

What was a key effect of the asylum offered by Spanish Florida in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries?

How did the Haitian Revolution influence African diasporic communities and Black political thought?

What were some daily forms of resistance demonstrated by enslaved African Americans?

Source: Excerpt from Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl: Written by Herself by Harriet A. Jacobs, 1860 (sections V–VIII, XIV, XXI)

How does the interdisciplinary approach of African American Studies, as reflected in the source, contribute to understanding Africa's history and its connection to the African diaspora?

How did Africa’s diverse climate zones, as illustrated in the map, contribute to the development of distinct economic activities across the continent?

Which geographic feature, shown in the map, played a significant role in connecting trade between the Sahara to the north and the tropical regions to the south?

What were the primary effects of the Bantu expansion on the linguistic and cultural diversity of Africa, and how is this connected to the genetic heritage of African Americans?

What was a key feature of the complex societies that emerged in ancient East Africa, such as Egypt and Nubia, and how did their interactions shape their development?

What is the Nok society, which emerged around 500 BCE in present-day Nigeria, best known for?

Match each Sudanic empire to its defining feature.

Which of the following best captures the significance of Mansa Musa of the Mali Empire as depicted on the map?

A Muslim merchant's journey to the Mali Empire in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries was most likely motivated by

Which of the following best explains the importance of griots to the Mali Empire?

How did processional crosses, like the artifact shown in the image, connect to the cultural and historical significance of the Aksumite Empire?

Why is the Aksumite Empire historically significant to Black communities and African American Studies?

How does the image reflect the syncretic religious practices that developed in West and West Central African societies and were carried forward in the Americas?

What role did syncretic religious practices, such as those depicted in the image, play in the lives of African-descended communities in the Americas?

How did geographic and cultural factors contribute to the rise of city-states on the Swahili Coast?

What was the significance of the stone architecture in Great Zimbabwe?

How did the adoption of Christianity affect the Kingdom of Kongo's economy and religious practices?

What role did the Kingdom of Kongo play in the transatlantic slave trade?

How did Christian cultural practices from the Kingdom of Kongo influence early generations of African Americans?

Which of the following best highlights the political legacies of Queen Idia and Queen Njinga?

What were some of the reasons Africans traveled to Europe and Europeans traveled to Africa before the onset of the transatlantic slave trade?

Which of the following best describes the significance of Juan Garrido as a historical figure in African American Studies?

Garrido and Restall provide evidence for which of the following statements about Africans in the Americas during the sixteenth century?

Which of the following most directly motivated enslaved ladinos to participate in the conquest of the Americas?

Which of the following statements best supports the claim that Africans served an important role in colonizing the Americas?

According to the map, which two regions accounted for nearly half of the enslaved Africans transported to mainland North America?

How did the diverse origins of enslaved Africans, as shown on the map, influence African American communities in the United States?

Based on the excerpt, how does Olaudah Equiano describe his first encounter with the slave ship?

How does the excerpt illustrate the experiences of enslaved Africans during the Middle Passage?

How does the diagram of the British slave ship "Brookes" illustrate the commodification of enslaved Africans during the Middle Passage?

What role did African resistance aboard slave ships, such as those depicted in the diagram, play in shaping the abolitionist movement?

Which of the following best accounts for the change in the map?

What was the impact of the growth of the cotton industry on enslaved African American families during the early 1800’s?

How does the image of the woven basket reflect the specialized skills enslaved Africans brought to the Americas?

What does the exploitation of skills like basket weaving by enslaved Africans reveal about their roles in the American economy?

What legal principle regarding slavery was established by the South Carolina Slave Code of 1740, as illustrated in the excerpt?

How did the South Carolina Slave Code reflect the racialized nature of slavery in the colony?

How does the image reflect the impact of the legal principle of partus sequitur ventrem on African American families?

What does the phrase "Am I not a Woman and a Sister?" in the image suggest about the role of race and gender in the abolitionist movement?

What role did spirituals play in the lives of enslaved African Americans?

How did enslaved African Americans combine African and local influences in their forms of self-expression?

Source: Selections of letters written to newspapers from Call and Response, 1831–1841

How did changing demographics and debates about identity influence the terms African Americans used to identify themselves in the nineteenth century?

What was a key effect of the asylum offered by Spanish Florida in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries?

How did the Haitian Revolution influence African diasporic communities and Black political thought?

What were some daily forms of resistance demonstrated by enslaved African Americans?

How does Maria W. Stewart highlight the struggles of free Black women in her speech "Why Sit Here and Die"?

What were the characteristics of maroon communities across the African diaspora?

What was the significance of maroon wars in the African diaspora?

How did the arrival of a massive number of enslaved Africans in Brazil influence cultural practices in the region?

How did Black Seminoles participate in the Second Seminole War (1835–1842) as highlighted in the diary excerpt?

How did the expansion of slavery impact relations between Black and Indigenous communities, according to the historical context?

Which of the following statements best reflects the perspective of those who disagreed with Douglass’ claim in the document above?

According to Henry Highland Garnet and other supporters of the radical resistance movement, what was considered an acceptable means for enslaved African Americans to achieve freedom?

Based on the passage, which of the following describes an outcome of escaping to freedom in the North for formerly enslaved people?

Which of the following broader historical contexts best explains Tubman's fear of "being carried away"?

Tubman's testimony was part of a larger effort by abolitionists to highlight which of the following?

What was a significant consequence of the high number of African Americans fleeing enslavement?

What was the role of the figure depicted in the image during the Civil War?

Which of the following best describes the significance of photography and artwork, like Bisa Butler’s quilt, depicted in the image?

Source: Excerpt from Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl: Written by Herself by Harriet A. Jacobs, 1860 (sections V–VIII, XIV, XXI)

What does Harriet Jacobs’ description of her experiences as a young enslaved girl reveal about the gendered nature of resistance during slavery?

How does the interdisciplinary approach of African American Studies, as reflected in the source, contribute to understanding Africa's history and its connection to the African diaspora?

How did Africa’s diverse climate zones, as illustrated in the map, contribute to the development of distinct economic activities across the continent?

Which geographic feature, shown in the map, played a significant role in connecting trade between the Sahara to the north and the tropical regions to the south?

What were the primary effects of the Bantu expansion on the linguistic and cultural diversity of Africa, and how is this connected to the genetic heritage of African Americans?

What was a key feature of the complex societies that emerged in ancient East Africa, such as Egypt and Nubia, and how did their interactions shape their development?

What is the Nok society, which emerged around 500 BCE in present-day Nigeria, best known for?

Match each Sudanic empire to its defining feature.

Which of the following best captures the significance of Mansa Musa of the Mali Empire as depicted on the map?

A Muslim merchant's journey to the Mali Empire in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries was most likely motivated by

Which of the following best explains the importance of griots to the Mali Empire?

How did processional crosses, like the artifact shown in the image, connect to the cultural and historical significance of the Aksumite Empire?