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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Fanon advises the post-colonial societies to abandon the route of what?
(a) Capitalism
(b) Social justice
(c) Socialism
(d) Freedom

2. Where is the most spontaneous and explosive force for the revolution found?
(a) The ghetto fringes of the cities
(b) The government buildings
(c) The colonialists' mansions
(d) The colonial nation

3. Why is the advantage in the hands of the colonialists when violence does occur?
(a) They know the land better
(b) They have the ideal of freedom on their side
(c) They are smarter
(d) Their military might

4. Fanon states that what cannot sustain the revolution?
(a) Disgust and determination
(b) Anger and apathy
(c) Malice and mainstreaming
(d) Resentment and revenge

5. Fanon suggests that rural peasants may resent whom?
(a) Other rural peasants
(b) Those in their communities
(c) Those who fled to the cities
(d) Revolutionaries

6. How will the colonists react to the rebel actions?
(a) Militaristic action
(b) Give up and go home
(c) Concede more governmental representation
(d) Retreat until they can regroup

7. Fanon argues that the suppressed anger of the natives will turn to what?
(a) Acceptance
(b) Mass migration
(c) Traditional religions
(d) Violence

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

9. Which major nations recognized the importance of peace during the Cold War?
(a) Iran and Iraq
(b) The United States and Korea
(c) France and Algeria
(d) The United States and Russia

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

11. What does Fanon attribute the wealth and progress of Europe to?
(a) The resources in Europe
(b) Their superiority
(c) Abandoning colonialism
(d) The toil and sacrifice of natives

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

13. The battle between the colonizers and the colonized grows out of what?
(a) Fairness
(b) Dishonor
(c) Inequality
(d) Justice

14. Which of the following is a weapon used by the natives in the rebellion in Madagascar?
(a) Machine gun
(b) Balloon
(c) Spear
(d) Nuclear bomb

15. Colonialists will try to drive wedges between different groups of natives based on differences in tribal affiliation, ethnic differences and what?
(a) Home ownership
(b) Gender
(c) Geography
(d) Attractiveness

Short Answer Questions

1. The natives realize that they have been what by colonialism?

2. What can carry the movement in the first few days, but not later on?

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

4. What tactic did the rebel leaders in Angola turn it after the savage counter-attack?

5. What will the native people abandon once the fight for freedom begins?

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