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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2, Spontaneity: Its Strength and Weakness.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Fanon attribute the wealth and progress of Europe to?
(a) Their superiority
(b) The resources in Europe
(c) Abandoning colonialism
(d) The toil and sacrifice of natives

2. White settlers view the increase in violence as proof of what?
(a) The settlers' effect on society
(b) The need for gun control
(c) The inferiority of the natives
(d) The evil nature of humans

3. Why do the criminal acts by natives against natives rise?
(a) They vent their frustrations on one another
(b) To spite the white settlers
(c) To hurt other people
(d) The settlers force them to commit these acts

4. According to Fanon, what will be swept away in the first spontaneous rush of hope?
(a) Ancient feuds
(b) Oppression
(c) Fear of death
(d) Colonial rule

5. As the native population approaches the stage of decolonization, Fanon argues that they go through a phase of what when they think of the task of throwing off the colonial power?
(a) Fear
(b) Anger
(c) Apathy
(d) Acceptance

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does the colonizing nation have no interest in violence with native peoples?

2. A 1947 rebellion by rural peasants occurred where?

3. Fanon argues that the colonial powers may change tactics by lightening their military presence and do what?

4. Who do the national revolutionary political parties assume are too bogged down for the message of liberation?

5. Fanon states that what cannot sustain the revolution?

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