Q 01/05

Angola is the second-largest Portuguese-speaking country in the world after which nation?

A) Mozambique

B) Brazil

C) Portugal

D) Guinea-Bissau

Answer · why

B) Brazil

Brazil. The two are bound by more than language: for centuries Angola's ports shipped enslaved Africans across the Atlantic, more than a million of th...

Q 02/05

Which Angolan province is an exclave separated from the rest of the country by DR Congo?

A) Zaire

B) Uíge

C) Namibe

D) Cabinda

Answer · why

D) Cabinda

Cabinda. A strip of DR Congo cuts it off from the rest of Angola, yet much of the country's oil wealth lies off its shore, which helps explain why a s...

Q 03/05

Captives seized in Angola in 1619 became the first recorded Africans in which English colony?

A) Massachusetts

B) Virginia

C) Carolina

D) Maryland

Answer · why

B) Virginia

Virginia. English privateers attacked a Portuguese slave ship at sea and sold 'twenty and odd' of its captives, people taken from the kingdom of Ndong...

Q 04/05

Which kingdom, dominant in northern Angola from the 14th century, first met the Portuguese in 1483?

A) Ndongo

B) Matamba

C) Kongo

D) Mbunda

Answer · why

C) Kongo

Kongo. Its rulers welcomed the newcomers and turned Christian, but King Afonso I, who took the throne in 1506, was soon at odds with Portuguese trader...

Q 05/05

Which Portuguese explorer was the first to reach the Angolan coast, in the 1480s?

A) Vasco da Gama

B) Diogo Cão

C) Bartolomeu Dias

D) Pedro Álvares Cabral

Answer · why

B) Diogo Cão

Diogo Cão. He carried stone pillars called padrões, carved with the arms of Portugal, and set one up at each new landfall to claim the coast for his k...