Greetings of peace. Please watch this video and answer the questions listed below. I hope you find the lecture as engaging as I did. It is an enlightening look at "The History of Education in Ethiopia with Special Emphasis on Higher Education."
1. The main lecturer was named ___ .
a. Seneca
b. Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
c. Dr. Aklilu Habte
d. Marcus Samuelsson
2. What prominent position did the main speaker obtain that prepared him to lead this discussion on higher education in Ethiopia as a guest lecturer at the Library of Congress?
a. former yoga instructor
b. former president of Haile Selassie 1st University in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
c. former CIA Director
d. former Ethiopia’s Got Talent contestant
3. Which category below was not included in his introduction?
a. the issue of literacy
b. the Nile River and Valley
c. Ethiopia’s early adoption of Islam, Christianity, and Judaism
d. Ethiopia’s geography
e. early Ethiopian architecture
4. What are generally known as the recorded stages of education in Ethiopia’s history?
a. Stone Age, Bronze Age, Iron Age
b. prehistory, history
c. traditional, modern, neomodern, revolutionary, contemporary
d. modern, postmodern
5. What influential figures played a major role in Ethiopia’s early educational system?
a. hair stylists
b. fashion designers
c. monks
d. politicians
6. What policy did Emperor Haile Selassie institute for the survival of Ethiopia?
a. study abroad
b. mandatory military service
c. increased taxes
d. forgiveness of student loans
7. Why is the date 1958 significant in this lecture?
a. It is the year slavery was abolished in Ethiopia.
b. It is the year of the UNESCO conference in Cairo entitled “The Mutual Appreciation of Eastern and Western Cultural Values.”
c. It is the year Ethiopian-Irish actress Ruth Negga won an Oscar.
d. It is the year Emperor Menelik was born.
8. In the current educational system in Ethiopia, what is the trend and what is being sacrificed?
a. The trend is bullying and what is being sacrificed is safety.
b. The trend is expansion and what is being sacrificed is quality.
c. The trend is online learning and what is being sacrificed is human interaction.
d. The trend is standardized testing and what is being sacrificed is knowledge retention.
9. Ethiopians in the Horn of Africa are primarily taught by:
a. Teachers recruited from abroad, including places like India and Nigeria
b. Ethiopians
c. Martians from outer space
d. Robots
10. What quote sums up the main speaker’s philosophy about higher education in Ethiopia?
a. “The economy is booming.”
b. “Women are superior to men.”
c. “In the end, we have to train our own people.”
d. “Ethiopia can conquer the world.”
11. Bonus question! Toward the end of the video, there is a long silence while the main speaker listens to a question from the audience. Which of the following nonverbal cues does the lecturer not employ to show he is listening closely?
a. He purses his lips.
b. He nods his head.
c. He inclines his ear.
d. He takes off his jacket.
- Yerusalem Work