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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 will the native people abandon once the fight for freedom begins?
(a) Singing
(b) Their government
(c) Rituals
(d) Violence

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

3. The psychiatrist says that the native-on-native violence is a form of what?
(a) Distrust
(b) Poverty
(c) Avoidance
(d) Acceptance

4. Why do the criminal acts by natives against natives rise?
(a) They vent their frustrations on one another
(b) To spite the white settlers
(c) To hurt other people
(d) The settlers force them to commit these acts

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which major nations recognized the importance of peace during the Cold War?

2. When the native become discontent with the settlers' society, what does the native rediscover?

3. In indulging in the "fraternal bloodbath," the native distracts itself from confronting what?

4. In what country did Belgian colonialist military forces remove rural youths from the cities in 1957?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Why do the colonial powers seek to create a divide between the rural and urban areas?

4. What is the colonial system like for native peoples?

5. What political route does Fanon encourage post-colonial societies to take instead of capitalism? Why?

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

7. Where is the most spontaneous and explosive force for the revolution found, according to Fanon? Why is this?

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

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

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

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