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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. As the movement progresses, national consciousness begins to fall prey to what?

3. The search for an authentic Arab identify found its political articulation in what?

4. The post-colonial middle class expects to serve as the intermediary between which two groups?

5. The political education of the masses must raise awareness of what?

Short Essay Questions

1. What should those who are about to throw of colonialism realize?

2. What are the three phases of the culture's development by poets and writers?

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

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

5. Why do new cultural forms emerge?

6. Why does the colonial power implement programs and reforms? What should the rebels realize about these?

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

8. Why can't the new middle class expect to serve as the intermediary between international corporations and the native population?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What does Fanon think that native groups should do in colonial situations? What actions does he recommend in the book? What does he think a post-colonial society should look like? Do you agree or disagree? Why?

Essay Topic 2

How does the colonial power seek to stop the revolutionary movement? What tactics or actions are used in order to stop the forward progress? Are these actions successful? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 3

Why do natives form rebellions or revolutions against colonial societies? What factors influence the development of revolutionary movements? Do you agree or disagree with their reasoning? Why?

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