✅(Quiz 12) Flashcards
What allowed Wangari Maathai to focus fully on developing the Green Belt Movement?
a) working with the Norwegian Forestry Society
b) finding a business partner in her husband
c) winning the Nobel Peace Prize.
d) obtaining funding and backing from the Kenyan government.
e) receiving inheritance money from her father’s family
working with the Norwegian Forestry Society
In Wangaris efforts to quell the ethnic violence that erupted in the 1990s, she traveled the rural areas with members of the press. Which countries were they from?
a) America and Kenya
b) Germany and America
c) Kenya and Norway
d) Kenya and Germany
e) Norway and Germany
Kenya & Germany
Which forest did Maathai help protect after she and her new Green Party lost the 1997 elections?
a) Kakamega Forest
b) Loita Forest
c) Uhuru Forest
d) Mount Kenya Forest
e) Karura Forest
Karura Forest
As a solution to deforestation, soil degradation, water shortage, and poverty, Maathai began a campaign of planting trees.
Which group did she belong to when she first began this campaign?
a) Kenyan African National Union
b) Grassroots Organizations Operating Together in Sisterhood
c) The National Council of Women of Kenya
d) Development Fund for Women
e) Kennedy Airlift of African Students
The National Council of Women of Kenya
What happened during the Mau Mau rebellion?
a) maathai had to move back to her father’s house
b) maathai joined the rebellion
c) maathai’s village was burned to the ground
d) maathai’s brother was murdered by a Mau Mau soldier
e) maathai’s mother was forced to relocate to an emergency village
maathai’s mother was forced to relocate to an emergency village
What kind of name was “Wangari”?
a) her mother’s name
b) a Kikuyu name
c) The name of a nearby mountain
d) The name of her village
e) A Maasai name
a Kikuyu name
What kind of school did Maathai attend as a child?
a) a school run by nuns
b) she did not attend school
c) an outdoors school
d) a school run by an American NGO
e) a government-run school
a school run by nuns
Why did Wangari Maathai live in Germany for 20 months?
a) because she married a German scientist
b) to study European forestry
c) to study infectious diseases
d) to learn about electron microscopy
e) because she was hired by a German research lab
to learn about electron microscopy
What did Maathai do FIRST in her campaign to stop the building of a large skyscraper that would have ruined Uhuru Park in Nairobi?
a) she planted trees in the park as a memorial for the Saba Saba killings
b) she joined mothers with their children in protest
c) she wrote letters to newspapers and to garner support
d) she set up the Freedom Corner in the park
e) she organized a marathon in the park
she wrote letters to newspapers and to garner support
What did Maathai write about in her book concerning her years in the United States?
a) studying forestry at university.
b) meeting Martin Luther King Jr.
c) learning basketball at the Mount school.
d) converting to Islam
e) mourning for Kennedy after his assassination.
mourning for Kennedy after his assassination
