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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Once the colonial power realizes that any reforms will not satisfy the natives, what does it do?
(a) Gives more concessions to the natives
(b) Leaves the country before violence can occur
(c) Reacts with a reign of terror
(d) Ignores the natives

2. Where should the new government be seated?
(a) In the colonial nation
(b) A small city
(c) The country
(d) The largest city

3. The Arab world threw off which culture in the 1960s?
(a) Eastern culture
(b) Western culture
(c) Russian culture
(d) Southern culture

4. Every project undertaken by the government must respond to what?
(a) Staying out of international trouble
(b) A real need of the people
(c) Building up capitalism
(d) Reducing crime

5. The political education of the masses must raise awareness of what?
(a) That the future is their own
(b) The colonial power
(c) The equality in the nation
(d) The corruption in the nation

6. Fanon describes be-bop music as a music of what?
(a) Love
(b) Forgiveness
(c) Rebellion
(d) Ballroom dancing

7. Fanon argues that the involvement of the people will do what to the movement?
(a) Create tribal tensions
(b) Slow it down
(c) Speed it up
(d) Stagnate the movement

8. What is it important for those who are about to throw off colonialism to realize?
(a) The colonial power will never be fully defeated
(b) Their forbears gave up in the fight
(c) Their forbears did the best they could to resist colonialism
(d) The colonial power will regroup and be back

9. What word does not describe the rediscovered native culture?
(a) Violent in expression
(b) Serene
(c) Colorful
(d) Rash

10. The authentic artists who wants to create something for his countrymen learns the importance of what?
(a) Collaboration
(b) Wealth
(c) Dependence
(d) Individualism

11. The colonial middle class lacks what?
(a) Contentment
(b) Loyalty
(c) Wealth
(d) Leaders

12. How do the colonialists respond to the first demands for equality and dignity?
(a) Disgust
(b) Feigned deep concern
(c) Concern about preventing massacres
(d) Relief that the natives want self-rule

13. Fanon suggests that blacks across the globe are seeking what?
(a) A return of colonial culture
(b) Colonial rule
(c) Their own cultural tradition
(d) A single common identity

14. How many marked phases of development are there for native poets and writers, according to Fanon?
(a) 3
(b) 2
(c) 9
(d) 7

15. In the post-colonial world, citizens should be less concerned with royalty and more concerned with what, according to Fanon?
(a) Trends
(b) Equality
(c) Fashion
(d) Repression

Short Answer Questions

1. What myth do the colonialists hold?

2. Why does the bourgeoisie demand the nationalization of the economy?

3. Which of the following is a former French colony?

4. Which group poses a particular challenge for the post-colonial society?

5. The post-colonial middle class expects to serve as the intermediary between which two groups?

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