1. In 1994 South Africa held its first democratic election. Who became the
nation's first democratically elected president?
Thabo Mbeki
Nelson Mandela
F.W. De Klerk
Indira Ghandi
2. In 1990 Chile ended 17 years of rule by a military dictator following a
public vote. In 1998 the former dictator was arrested in London on charges of
human rights violations. Who is he?
Fidel Castro
Hugo Chavez
Augusto Pinochet
Vicente Fox
3.
Which religious leader declared voting a religious duty in Iraq’s recent
elections?
Ayatollah
Ruholla Khomeini
Sheik
Moqtada al-Sadr
Pope
John Paul II
Ayatollah Sayyid Ali
Husaini Sistani
4. The
first democratically elected Russian president withstood a coup attempt in
August 1991, rallying the public to denounce the military
intervention. Who was he?
Mikhail
Gorbachev
Vladimir
Putin
Boris Yeltsin
Alexander Lebed
5.
In 1996 the Taliban offered current Afghan president Hamid Karzai
a post as its representative to the United Nations. True or False?
True
False
6.
In 1998, the same year that the nation held its first successful
elections, Cambodia’s former Communist dictator Pol Pot
died under house arrest.
What was the name of his guerilla organization?
Khmer Rouge.
Viet Cong.
Sandinistas.
Hamas
7.
Which former police state’s popular uprising was dubbed the “Orange
Revolution," ultimately reversing the results of a contested election and
making Viktor Yushchenko its president?
Russia
Czech Republic
Georgia
Ukraine
8.
East Timor achieved independence and Xanana Gusmao was elected its first
president in what year?
1990
1996
1998
2002
9.
One of the poorest nations in the world, this sub-Saharan African
nation democratically
elected its first president, Mamadou Tanja, in 1999. Which nation is it?
Niger
Mali
Chad
Kenya
10.
Which playwright became the president of the Czech Republic
following the “Velvet Divorce” of 1993?
Alexander Pushkin
Vaclav Havel
Samuel Beckett
William Shakespeare
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