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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. A 1947 rebellion by rural peasants occurred where?
(a) Madagascar
(b) Mexico
(c) Vietnam
(d) India

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

12. The rebel movement may rely on what in the urban areas?
(a) Labor unions
(b) Upper class
(c) Intellectuals
(d) Government officials

13. Fanon argues that decolonization is always what type of struggle?
(a) Peaceful
(b) Profitable
(c) Futile
(d) Violent

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

15. 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

Short Answer Questions

1. Fanon argues that the suppressed anger of the natives will turn to what?

2. National revolutionary political parties usually show what toward rural peasants?

3. Natives know that only what can free them?

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

5. The natives are forced to do what by the Europeans?

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