The Wretched of the Earth Quizzes

The Wretched of the Earth Quiz #1

1 Fanon served on whose parliamentary campaign?

Winston Churchill

Karl Marx

Leon Trotsky

Aimé Césaire
2 Where was Fanon born?

Tunisia

Martinique

France

Algeria
3 In what war did Fanon fight alongside the French?

WWI

Alegrian War for Independence

WWII

Vietnam War
4 What did Fanon get his degree in?

Biology

Literature

Philosophy

Psychiatry
5 Where did Fanon witness colonial warfare?

Martinique

England

France

Algeria
6 What other book did Fanon write besides The Wretched of the Earth?

Postcolonial Theory

Black Minds, White Ideas

Black Skin, White Masks

Warfare in Colonial Contexts
7 Who wrote the introduction to The Wretched of the Earth?

Sartre

Bhaba

Marx

Butler
8 Aimé Césaire was part of what movement?

Negritude

Existentialism

Expressionism

Stalinism
9 Jean-Paul Sartre is affiliated with what philosophical school?

Postmodernism

Existentialism

Impressionism

Dada
10 Who originally used the term “lumpenproletariat”?

Lenin

Sartre

Marx

Stalin
11 What is the literal meaning of “lumpenproletariat”?

Rogue working class

Enlightened working class

Rogue elite

Enlightened elite
12 Which of the following is true of Fanon’s relationship to the Algerian Liberation Front?

He served in the army

He wrote for the anti-colonial newspaper

He was a spy for the French

He was a spy for the anti-colonial forces
13 What does the first chapter of The Wretched of the Earth focus on?

Violence

Intellectuals

Disease

Trauma
14 What does the second chapter of The Wretched of the Earth focus on?

Colonial psychology

The nation after independence

Colonial warfare

Intellectuals
15 What does the third chapter of The Wretched of the Earth focus on?

Intellectuals

Pre-colonial war

The nation after independence

Psychology
16 What does the fourth chapter of The Wretched of the Earth focus on?

The colonized intellectual

The colonist

Pre-colonial culture

Pyschology
17 What does the fifth chapter of The Wretched of the Earth focus on?

Psychology during colonial warfare

Pre-colonial psychology

National culture

Colonial culture
18 The last chapter of The Wretched of the Earth draws upon which professional experience of Fanon’s?

Police

Psychiatry

Political Science

Biology
19 What simile does Fanon use to describe the colonized intellectual’s original relationship to European culture?

Adoptive parent

Adopted child

Mosquito

Biological child
20 How do the colonists originally keep their power?

Bribery

Culture

Psychology

Violence
21 How do the colonized get rid of their inferiority complex?

Meditation

Culture

Bribery

Violence
22 Where does violence tend to erupt in colonial contexts?

Urban areas

Rural areas

The coasts

The motherland
23 What is a reaction disorder?

An inferiority complex

A disorder that creates physical reactions

A disorder in reaction to disease

A disorder in reaction to a traumatic event
24 What is an example Fanon gives of sublimation?

Knife fighting

Misogyny

Alcoholism

Dance and rituals
25 How does Fanon characterize the colonial worldview?

Manichaeism

Expressionism

Marxism

Dadaism

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