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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Fanon advises the post-colonial societies to abandon the route of what?
(a) Socialism
(b) Capitalism
(c) Freedom
(d) Social justice

2. What tactic did the rebel leaders in Angola turn it after the savage counter-attack?
(a) Boycotts
(b) Nuclear attack
(c) Non-violent protests
(d) Guerrilla warfare

3. Which of the following words describes the colonial society according to Fannon?
(a) Brotherhood
(b) Cooperation
(c) Individualism
(d) Love

4. Who do the national revolutionary political parties assume are too bogged down for the message of liberation?
(a) Rural peasants
(b) Urban individuals
(c) Colonial powers
(d) Intellectual elites

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

6. The mass killings of natives by settlers happen because of what?
(a) Fear
(b) Surprise
(c) Anger
(d) Apathy

7. Which of the following is a weapon used by the natives in the rebellion in Madagascar?
(a) Spear
(b) Nuclear bomb
(c) Balloon
(d) Machine gun

8. What did American black militants refer to the process of the colonialist bourgeoisie calling for non-violence and for the native to come to a reconciliation?
(a) Nationalism
(b) Peaceful negotiation
(c) Selling out
(d) Assimilation

9. Rebel political movements make a mistake by turning first to whom, according to Fanon?
(a) Elite bourgeoisie
(b) Rural people
(c) Less educated natives
(d) Young natives

10. What is behind the violence for the natives, according to Fanon?
(a) The acceptance of the situation
(b) The dream of overthrowing the oppressor
(c) The knowledge that nothing will change
(d) A need to let off steam

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

12. Why is the advantage in the hands of the colonialists when violence does occur?
(a) They know the land better
(b) They have the ideal of freedom on their side
(c) Their military might
(d) They are smarter

13. What sustains the rebel cause?
(a) Fear and apathy
(b) Power and greed
(c) Determination and courage
(d) Love and peace

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

15. How will the colonists react to the rebel actions?
(a) Give up and go home
(b) Militaristic action
(c) Retreat until they can regroup
(d) Concede more governmental representation

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In what country did Belgian colonialist military forces remove rural youths from the cities in 1957?

3. The natives realize that they have been what by colonialism?

4. Fanon argues that colonialists are skilled at exploiting the rift between which two groups?

5. In trying for pacification, the colonialist bourgeoisie is aided by what?

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