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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Indigenous people become what in their own lands under colonialism?
(a) Strangers
(b) Rulers
(c) Caretakers
(d) Beneficiaries

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

4. Fanon argues that colonialists are skilled at exploiting the rift between which two groups?
(a) Workers and the poor
(b) Urban and rural dwellers
(c) Old and young
(d) Men and women

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is the advantage in the hands of the colonialists when violence does occur?

2. The mass killings of natives by settlers happen because of what?

3. What may rural peasants guard?

4. Fanon argues that what resembles possession by otherworldly spirits?

5. In preparing to overthrow the colonial powers, the native will face threats from whom?

Short Essay Questions

1. What should the natives remember about any concessions that they are offered?

2. How does the revolution begin?

3. What are the earliest stages of the rebellion like?

4. What actions do the leaders of the movement need to do in order to keep the movement going?

5. How does Fanon believe that dance relates to the oppression of colonialism?

6. How do the colonial powers try to combat the revolution?

7. What is colonization, according to Fanon? What are the effects of colonization?

8. How is the colonialist bourgeoisie aided by religion?

9. What situations or obstacles may threaten the movement? Why?

10. What happens as the native approaches the stage of decolonization?

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