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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. Natives know that only what can free them?
(a) Negotiation
(b) Education
(c) Violence
(d) Hope

5. How do the rural peasants feel about being bypassed at first?
(a) Indifferent
(b) Excited
(c) Relieved
(d) Shunned

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

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

8. In indulging in the "fraternal bloodbath," the native distracts itself from confronting what?
(a) The colonialist powers
(b) The effects of colonization
(c) The futility of the situation
(d) Their own inferiority

9. 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) Acceptance
(b) Fear
(c) Apathy
(d) Anger

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

11. Who was the colonial power in Angola?
(a) Portugal
(b) Norway
(c) France
(d) England

12. Some natives will have what because they have been allowed into the elite of colonialist society?
(a) Hope
(b) Fewer resources
(c) Inertia
(d) Pride in the revolution

13. Which colonial power controlled Congo?
(a) Germany
(b) Portugal
(c) France
(d) Belgium

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

15. What was the rebellion in Kenya called?
(a) Tasmania rebellion
(b) Mau-Mau rebellion
(c) Skyre rebellion
(d) Massa rebellion

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is behind the violence for the natives, according to Fanon?

3. Who helped the British colonial forces drive back young Kenyans?

4. What tactic did the rebel leaders in Angola turn it after the savage counter-attack?

5. What does Fanon call the rural people?

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