Variant – 1 Choose the best answer

23. As it is implied in the passage ...

A) Africa's history provides a firm foundation for the steady

growth.

B) Africans abandoned the struggle for freedom.

C) up to day Africans are completely weighed down by

European countries.

D) hard struggle preceeded Africans' freedom.
24. According to the passage, Africans were subjugated by

Europeans approximately ...

A) at the end of the sixteenth century.

B) at the beginning of the thirteenth century.

C) in the middle of the fourteenth century.

D) in the middle of the fifteenth century.