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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Fanon argues that the post-colonial middle class identifies too closely with what group?
(a) The revolutionary leaders
(b) The rural peasants
(c) The corrupt bourgeoisie of the west
(d) The colonial power's poor

3. 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

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

5. Fanon suggests that those who refuse to get involved are what?
(a) Communists
(b) Smart
(c) Nationalists
(d) Traitors

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

7. The post-colonial middle class has no understanding of what?
(a) Culture
(b) Economics
(c) Violence
(d) Social movements

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

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

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

11. In the third phase of the rediscovery of native culture, the native artists attempts to do what?
(a) Use the colonial culture
(b) Emmigrate from the country
(c) Rouse others to fight the enemy
(d) Have others abandon the native culture

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

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

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

15. Although former colonies have a potential unity, they also have what?
(a) Distinct views on colonialism
(b) Distinct identities apart from colonialism
(c) Distinct social problems
(d) Distinct types of exploitation

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does the national party begin to disintegrate?

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

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

4. What does the middle class demand from the farm workers?

5. Fanon describes be-bop music as a music of what?

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