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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3, The Pitfalls of National Consciousness.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Fanon call the rural people?
(a) Urbanites
(b) Intellectual elite
(c) Lumpenproletariat
(d) Bourgeoisie

2. Where should the new government be seated?
(a) The country
(b) In the colonial nation
(c) The largest city
(d) A small city

3. Why does the bourgeoisie demand the nationalization of the economy?
(a) To help the poor, rural peasants out of feudalism
(b) To benefit from the corruption of the past regime
(c) For the good of all the people
(d) To strengthen the national consciousness

4. Fanon states that what cannot sustain the revolution?
(a) Malice and mainstreaming
(b) Resentment and revenge
(c) Disgust and determination
(d) Anger and apathy

5. Every project undertaken by the government must respond to what?
(a) Staying out of international trouble
(b) Building up capitalism
(c) A real need of the people
(d) Reducing crime

Short Answer Questions

1. A 1947 rebellion by rural peasants occurred where?

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

3. In indulging in the "fraternal bloodbath," the native distracts itself from confronting what?

4. What becomes an authoritarian bureaucracy to pass directives from top to bottom?

5. Fanon suggests that the post-colonial government needs to be most concerned with what?

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