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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Fanon argues that the national unity may disintegrate into what type of conflicts?
(a) Religious
(b) Family
(c) Workplace
(d) Gender

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

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

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

5. An artistic renaissance often must be preceded by what?
(a) Research into the pre-existing native culture
(b) Burying the past
(c) Permission from the colonialists
(d) Abandoning the old way of doing things

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

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

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

9. What spreads within the stagnant regime?
(a) Corruption
(b) Peace
(c) Equallity
(d) Socialism

10. What does the middle class seek at any cost to avoid?
(a) Injustice
(b) Exploitation
(c) Risks
(d) Wealth

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

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

13. The reaching out of native intellectuals toward the native culture is an attempt to find what?
(a) Wealth
(b) Colonial heritage
(c) Violent revolution
(d) Stability

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

15. What country installed a fascist government after its revolution?
(a) Canada
(b) Chile
(c) China
(d) Puerto Rico

Short Answer Questions

1. The authentic artist hopes to create something of value for whom?

2. In the building of the new democracy, no one will be able to escape what?

3. Why does Fanon believe that they should live in this location?

4. Which group poses a particular challenge for the post-colonial society?

5. Fanon argues that the post-colonial middle class identifies too closely with what group?

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