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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. There can be no hope for the spread of African culture devoid of the struggle for what?
(a) Greater power
(b) Utopian societies
(c) Liberation from colonialism
(d) Western influence

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

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

4. The rediscovered native culture is often what?
(a) Peaceful
(b) Boisterous
(c) Dead
(d) Subtle

5. Fanon suggests that American blacks had little in common with blacks from places like the Congo except for what?
(a) Their culture
(b) Their economic status
(c) Their relation with whites
(d) Their slave status

6. As the movement progresses, national consciousness begins to fall prey to what?
(a) Demands from other countries
(b) Loyalty to the colonialists
(c) Regional and tribal interests
(d) Selfishness

7. Fanon suggests that the post-colonial government needs to be most concerned with what?
(a) The empowerment of its citizens
(b) Its own profit
(c) Perpetuating the nation
(d) Reducing crime

8. What is the only path to unity according to Fanon?
(a) The growth of naitve-on-native violence
(b) The coordinated push of the people to reach their goals
(c) The acceptance of the colonial power by the natives
(d) The voluntary exit of the colonial group from the rural areas

9. The true native art begins to grow when the artist address whom?
(a) The colonial society
(b) The intellectual elites
(c) His own people
(d) The bourgeoisie

10. Which group poses a particular challenge for the post-colonial society?
(a) Criminals
(b) The elderly
(c) Loyal colonialists
(d) Young people

11. Why does the national party begin to disintegrate?
(a) It is no longer needed
(b) It is cut off from the people
(c) The colonial power forces it to
(d) It becomes too much like the colonial power

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

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

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

15. What becomes an authoritarian bureaucracy to pass directives from top to bottom?
(a) The national political party
(b) The colonial power
(c) The middle class
(d) The rural peasants

Short Answer Questions

1. What type of music was a reaction to colonialism after WWII?

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

3. When farmland in Algeria was turned over to farm workers, how much did the output increase?

4. The government in Algeria expects people to work hard so who will profit?

5. What remains after colonialism ends?

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