The Wretched of the Earth | Short Question Answer Key

Short Answer Key

Chapter 1, Concerning Violence

1. Fanon argues that decolonization is always what type of struggle?

Violent

2. Fanon suggests that the act of colonization is accompanied by what?

Knives and guns

3. Colonization robs the native of what?

Human rights

4. The battle between the colonizers and the colonized grows out of what?

Inequality

5. In the colonial society, who holds the power?

Colonists

6. Indigenous people become what in their own lands under colonialism?

Strangers

7. The natives are forced to do what by the Europeans?

Assimilate to their culture

8. The settlers see the natives as what?

Beasts

9. The settlers believe the natives are incapable of what?

Ethics

10. What must the native do to reclaim his humanity?

Get rid of the settler's values

11. As the native population approaches the stage of decolonization, Fanon argues that they go through a phase of what when...
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