Black Skin, White Masks Quizzes

Black Skin, White Masks Quiz #1

1 How old was Fanon when Black Skin, White Masks was published?
27

47

41

20
2 Where was Fanon from?
Algeria

Martinique

France

United States
3 What is a name of another book by Fanon?
After France

Oppressed of the Earth

Wretched Souls

Wretched of the Earth
4 Who was a theorist of dialectics?
Hegel

Adler

Freud

John Locke
5 Who was associated with existentialism?
Adler

Marx

Liberace

Sartre
6 Which of the following topics did Sartre write about?
Anti-Semitism

Shakespeare

History of Blackness

Plato
7 What novel does Fanon focus on in his discussion of “Negro Women”?
I Am Australian

I Am a Martinician

I Am French

I Am Algerian
8 Who wrote I Am A Martinician?
Fanon

Marx

Sartre

Capécia
9 What is the name of an essay by Jean-Paul Sartre?
Christian and Muslim

Black and White

France and the Colony

Anti-Semite and Jew
10 Who is a psychoanalyst Fanon engages in the penultimate chapter of the book?
Mannoni

Adler

Freud

Lacan
11 What is the name for a purging of pent-up feelings?
Relaxation

Catharsis

Neurosis

Etherism
12 What is the name for a psychological problem?
Psychopathology

Concerning pathos

Psychic connection

Mind pathology
13 What is the name for a psychopathology related to feelings of inferiority from being abandoned?
Abandonment neurotic

Pathology of loss

Superiority lack

Inferior test
14 What is another name for an emotional intensity?
Obsession

Pathology

Affect

Neurosis
15 What is the term Fanon uses for agency?
Pathology

Actional

Passion

Etherism
16 What is the term others have used to describe the innate feeling of inferiority in Black people?
Inferior pathology

Dependency complex

Superiority lack

Pathology of loss
17 What is a term for a relation between contradictory things?
Machine

Pathology

Dialectic

Etherism
18 What is a term for hyper-sensitivity?
Contradiction

Machine

Erethism

Pathology
19 What is Fanon’s term for a desire to become whiter?
Dying

Whitening

Lactification

Tooth-becoming
20 What is the term for an unconscious sexual desire by children for their parents?
Child pathology

Parent pathology

Erethism

Oedipus complex
21 What is a symbol of the genital sphere?
Wine

Book

Dialectic

Phallus
22 Who creates the feeling of inferiority in Black people?
Africans

Martinicians

Algerians

Racists
23 What is Blackness primarily associated with in racist societies?
The actional

The mental

The cognitive

The biological
24 Which of the following describes a relation of preference in Fanon’s thinking?
Feeling > Acting

Knowing > Acting

Acting > Knowing

Feeling > Knowing
25 In order to change the inferiority complex of Black people, we need to change ______.
The social world

The mental world

The symbolic world

The genital world

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