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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Fanon suggests that any concessions offered are a result of what?
(a) The benevolence of the colonists
(b) The native struggle
(c) A desire to give the natives power
(d) Communism

2. Fanon argues that the successful movement has to move from slogans to what?
(a) Showdowns
(b) Strategies
(c) Soundbites
(d) Sleep

3. Where is the most spontaneous and explosive force for the revolution found?
(a) The government buildings
(b) The ghetto fringes of the cities
(c) The colonialists' mansions
(d) The colonial nation

4. Political parties may be inexperienced at organizing what?
(a) Rural areas
(b) Inner cities
(c) Suburbs
(d) Ubran areas

5. The native finds that who tries to resist and block reform?
(a) The intellectual elite
(b) Those in rural areas
(c) Simple folk
(d) The workers

6. Who reinforced the colonialists in the rural areas?
(a) Children
(b) Immigrants
(c) Rural peasants
(d) Local chiefs

7. Fanon argues that the colonial powers may change tactics by lightening their military presence and do what?
(a) Use nuclear weapons
(b) Promote unity between the native peoples
(c) Let another colonial power take over
(d) Placate the rebels

8. What will the initial period of euphoria be replaced with?
(a) The death of colonial rule
(b) Fear
(c) A retreat by the rebels
(d) Colonialist reaction

9. The battle between the colonizers and the colonized grows out of what?
(a) Fairness
(b) Inequality
(c) Dishonor
(d) Justice

10. The birth of a new order can only come from what according to Fanon?
(a) The oppression of the natives
(b) A new ruler in the colonialist structure
(c) The disintegration of the colonialist structure
(d) Giving up all violence

11. What advantage does the colonial power have over the rebel?
(a) Fewer resources
(b) More wealth
(c) Less equipment
(d) More poverty

12. Fanon argues that what resembles possession by otherworldly spirits?
(a) Dance
(b) Illness
(c) Death
(d) Religion

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

14. The indigenous people value what according to Fanon?
(a) Individualism
(b) Self-reliance
(c) Competition
(d) Community

15. Why does the colonizing nation have no interest in violence with native peoples?
(a) The colonizing country has the natives best interest at heart.
(b) The colonizing country knows that they will be defeated in battle.
(c) They consume goods imported from the colonizing country.
(d) The colonizing nation relies on the government of the native peoples.

Short Answer Questions

1. What can carry the movement in the first few days, but not later on?

2. Colonialists will try to drive wedges between different groups of natives based on differences in tribal affiliation, ethnic differences and what?

3. A 1947 rebellion by rural peasants occurred where?

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

5. Which of the following words describes the colonial society according to Fannon?

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