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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. The natives are forced to do what by the Europeans?
(a) Assimilate to their culture
(b) Starve to death
(c) Rule over the land
(d) Take money from the Europeans

5. Colonization robs the native of what?
(a) Love
(b) Human rights
(c) Danger and excitement
(d) Ability to serve

6. What must the native do to reclaim his humanity?
(a) Quietly serve
(b) Follow the rule of the colonizers
(c) Swear allegiance to the settlers
(d) Get rid of the settler's values

7. Where do the rebel leaders flee when they are harassed and threatened?
(a) The countryside
(b) Cities
(c) The colonial nation
(d) Neighboring countries

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

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

10. The native settler may believe that who will punish the transgressor of social norms?
(a) Spirits
(b) The UN
(c) Native rulers
(d) Zeus

11. Colonialists will try to drive wedges between different groups of natives based on differences in tribal affiliation, ethnic differences and what?
(a) Attractiveness
(b) Geography
(c) Home ownership
(d) Gender

12. What will the native people abandon once the fight for freedom begins?
(a) Their government
(b) Violence
(c) Rituals
(d) Singing

13. Wise rebel leaders recognize the importance of what?
(a) Compromise
(b) Peace
(c) Retreat
(d) Education

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What will the initial period of euphoria be replaced with?

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

4. Fanon suggests that any concessions offered are a result of what?

5. When the native become discontent with the settlers' society, what does the native rediscover?

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