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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In preparing to overthrow the colonial powers, the native will face threats from whom?
(a) Outside threats
(b) Nature
(c) Colonialist police
(d) Other natives

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

3. The psychiatrist says that the native-on-native violence is a form of what?
(a) Poverty
(b) Distrust
(c) Acceptance
(d) Avoidance

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

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

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

7. National revolutionary political parties usually show what toward rural peasants?
(a) Indifferance
(b) Compassion
(c) Violence
(d) Interest

8. What can carry the movement in the first few days, but not later on?
(a) Strategies
(b) Spontaneity
(c) Determination
(d) Hope

9. Rebel leaders are called upon to articulate a clear what?
(a) Slogan
(b) Religious doctrine
(c) Creed
(d) National vision

10. In the colonial society, who holds the power?
(a) Young people
(b) Natives
(c) The poor
(d) Colonists

11. 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) They consume goods imported from the colonizing country.
(c) The colonizing country knows that they will be defeated in battle.
(d) The colonizing nation relies on the government of the native peoples.

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

13. What may rural peasants guard?
(a) The roads to the cities
(b) The secret to their successes
(c) Their stores of wealth
(d) Tribal and folk customs

14. The settlers believe the natives are incapable of what?
(a) Stupidity
(b) Ethics
(c) Danger
(d) Repression

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Fanon advises the post-colonial societies to abandon the route of what?

2. The battle between the colonizers and the colonized grows out of what?

3. According to Fanon, what will be swept away in the first spontaneous rush of hope?

4. White settlers view the increase in violence as proof of what?

5. The rebel movement may rely on what in the urban areas?

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