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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The post-colonial middle class expects to serve as the intermediary between which two groups?
(a) Natives and the new colonial power
(b) International corporations and the colonial power
(c) The UN and the native population
(d) International corporations and the native population

2. Fanon argues that nations should nationalize what sector of the economy?
(a) The manufacturing sector
(b) The intermediary sector
(c) The lower sector
(d) The advertising sector

3. Fanon says that the leaders of the party in an underdeveloped country should live where?
(a) The country
(b) The suburbs
(c) The cities
(d) The ghetto fringe

4. 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) Repression
(d) Fashion

5. The leader seeks to consolidate his power in what?
(a) Communism
(b) A democracy
(c) Socialism
(d) A dictatorship

6. The first phase for the native writers and artists is what?
(a) Creating artistic pieces for colonial rulers
(b) Throwing off colonial rule
(c) Creating a native culture
(d) Showing that the colonial culture has been absorbed

7. Why does the bourgeoisie demand the nationalization of the economy?
(a) For the good of all the people
(b) To strengthen the national consciousness
(c) To help the poor, rural peasants out of feudalism
(d) To benefit from the corruption of the past regime

8. The colonial power treats the natives as what?
(a) Savages
(b) Employers
(c) Royalty
(d) Sons

9. The farm workers come to know the value of what?
(a) The status quo
(b) The colonialists' grapes
(c) The middle classes' leadership
(d) Their own native soil

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

11. The new middle class that occurs is what, according to Fanon?
(a) Unhappy with their position
(b) Loyal to the colonialists
(c) Poor
(d) Counter-revolutionary

12. Colonialism has infused the native culture with what?
(a) Distrust of anything new
(b) Fear of the past
(c) The culture of other native groups
(d) The culture of the colonial country

13. The re-discovery of the indigenous culture helps reclaim what?
(a) Colonial knowledge
(b) Technology advances
(c) Wealth for the native
(d) Basic human dignity

14. When farmland in Algeria was turned over to farm workers, how much did the output increase?
(a) Tripled
(b) It stayed the same
(c) It decreased by ten percent
(d) Doubled

15. The resuscitation of the native culture helps to rekindle what?
(a) Hope
(b) Wealth
(c) Poverty
(d) Apathy

Short Answer Questions

1. The Arab world threw off which culture in the 1960s?

2. The second phase in the rediscovery of native culture is marked by what?

3. The conflicts in the country may cause the manifestations of what?

4. How many marked phases of development are there for native poets and writers, according to Fanon?

5. What myth do the colonialists hold?

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