Black Skin, White Masks Quizzes

Black Skin, White Masks Quiz #1

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

20

47

41
2 Where was Fanon from?
Algeria

Martinique

United States

France
3 What is a name of another book by Fanon?
Wretched of the Earth

Wretched Souls

Oppressed of the Earth

After France
4 Who was a theorist of dialectics?
John Locke

Hegel

Adler

Freud
5 Who was associated with existentialism?
Marx

Liberace

Adler

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 Algerian

I Am a Martinician

I Am French

I Am Australian
8 Who wrote I Am A Martinician?
Sartre

Fanon

Marx

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

Anti-Semite and Jew

Christian and Muslim

Black and White
10 Who is a psychoanalyst Fanon engages in the penultimate chapter of the book?
Lacan

Mannoni

Adler

Freud
11 What is the name for a purging of pent-up feelings?
Neurosis

Etherism

Catharsis

Relaxation
12 What is the name for a psychological problem?
Psychic connection

Mind pathology

Psychopathology

Concerning pathos
13 What is the name for a psychopathology related to feelings of inferiority from being abandoned?
Inferior test

Abandonment neurotic

Superiority lack

Pathology of loss
14 What is another name for an emotional intensity?
Obsession

Neurosis

Affect

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

Actional

Passion

Pathology
16 What is the term others have used to describe the innate feeling of inferiority in Black people?
Superiority lack

Pathology of loss

Inferior pathology

Dependency complex
17 What is a term for a relation between contradictory things?
Pathology

Dialectic

Machine

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

Contradiction

Machine

Pathology
19 What is Fanon’s term for a desire to become whiter?
Tooth-becoming

Dying

Whitening

Lactification
20 What is the term for an unconscious sexual desire by children for their parents?
Erethism

Child pathology

Parent pathology

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

Dialectic

Phallus

Wine
22 Who creates the feeling of inferiority in Black people?
Martinicians

Africans

Racists

Algerians
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

Feeling > Knowing

Knowing > Acting

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

The genital world

The symbolic world

The social world

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