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About This Drill
AP African American Studies: African Societies — Drill 2 is a Multiple Choice practice drill covering Unit 1: Origins of the African Diaspora. It contains 5 original questions created by Brian Stewart, a Barron's test prep author with over 20 years of tutoring experience.
Test your knowledge with AP African American Studies practice questions on African population diversity, ethnolinguistic traditions, and the role of griots in oral learning. Essential AP exam prep for Unit 1 of the course.
Passage
“The griot is far more than a storyteller. He is a living archive — the keeper of genealogies, historical events, proverbs, and praise songs accumulated across generations. In West African societies, knowledge was not confined to written texts; it was embodied, performed, and transmitted through trained specialists whose memories held the accumulated wisdom of entire communities.”
— Adapted from a scholarly description of West African oral traditions, 2001
Questions in This Drill
- According to the source, which of the following best describes the primary function of a griot in West African societies?
- A historian argues that the griot tradition demonstrates that “the absence of writing does not indicate the absence of intellectual sophistication.” Which of the following, drawn from the source, most directly supports this argument?
- Which of the following best describes the ethnolinguistic landscape of the African continent?
- Compared to European educational traditions of the same era, which of the following most accurately describes indigenous African learning traditions as represented in West African societies?
- Which of the following best identifies a continuity in the role of oral tradition in African societies from the pre-colonial period through the era of the African diaspora?