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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 does the middle class demand from the farm workers?
(a) More dedication to the colonial power
(b) More sacrifice for the nation
(c) More work and output
(d) More revolutionary feelings

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

3. What remains after colonialism ends?
(a) National unity and equality
(b) Loyalty to the colonial power
(c) Revolutionary violence
(d) The disparities of wealth

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

5. The first phase for the native writers and artists is what?
(a) Creating artistic pieces for colonial rulers
(b) Creating a native culture
(c) Showing that the colonial culture has been absorbed
(d) Throwing off colonial rule

Short Answer Questions

1. The farm workers come to know the value of what?

2. The colonial middle class lacks what?

3. What type of music was a reaction to colonialism after WWII?

4. How should the post-colonial nation avoid the open hostility between the masses and those in power?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Fanon say about the comparison between blacks in the United States with those in Africa? How are they similar and different?

2. What will the leader of the post-colonial revolution be like? What will the leader's aims be?

3. How does the Arab world demonstrate the awaking of culture? What happened?

4. What do the people do when they realize the leader's true motives? What does the leader do?

5. According to Fanon, why is there a danger that national unity will disintegrate?

6. What happens to the national political party and the militants who started the revolution?

7. Why is a uniform national prosperity far from a reality?

8. Why do new cultural forms emerge?

9. What does Fanon argue that the post-colonial society should do to make the nation different and better than under colonialism?

10. When can the beginnings of an authentic African culture begin?

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