Multiple Choice


1	Why do post-colonial societies generally value an education in philosophy?
		A)	It is practical and useful for most people in their everyday lives.
		B)	It helps to replace old, worn-out traditions with modern, western ideas.
		C)	It promotes the self-awareness and consciousness-raising necessary to overcome colonialism and promote true justice.
		D)	Who are you trying to kid, here? They don't generally value this sort of useless education at all.


2	The emergence of colonialism in the fifteenth century was associated with which nation(s)?
		A)	Spain and Portugal.
		B)	Great Britain.
		C)	France.
		D)	The United States.


3	According to most post-colonial thinkers, what best explains the shared revolutionary consciousness of dominated people's everywhere?
		A)	Basic, universal human psychology.
		B)	The conceptual similarities of ideas introduced by the colonizing powers.
		C)	Shared similarities in each people's experiences of foreign domination.
		D)	They don't think an explanation is needed, since there aren't any such commonalities to speak of.


4	What best represents the general goal of Pan-African philosophy?
		A)	A return to pure African traditionalism.
		B)	The creation of a purely modern African consciousness that will replace the various tribal and ethnic traditions.
		C)	The total political and economic unity of Africa into a single nation.
		D)	The reconciliation of the traditional and the modern in Africa and among the descendents of Africans.


5	Which concept did Leopold Sedar Senghor develop and Paulin Hountondji reject?
		A)	Negritude
		B)	Ethnophilosophy
		C)	Positivism
		D)	Satyagraha


6	What do all post-colonial thinkers agree is needed to restore a good life to oppressed people?
		A)	Socialism
		B)	Justice
		C)	Religion
		D)	Capitalism


7	Which element of Latin-American thought directly challenged the dominance of Roman-Catholic metaphysics?
		A)	French critical philosophy
		B)	Marxism
		C)	German existentialism and phenomenology
		D)	Positivism


8	Martin Luther King was strongly influenced by this writer.
		A)	Mahatma (Mohandas) Ghandi
		B)	Karl Marx
		C)	Desmond Tutu
		D)	bell hooks


9	According to Fransisco Miro Quesada, how should humanity be reimaged beyond ideology?
		A)	In terms of those who own capital and those who work for them.
		B)	In terms of men who control things and women who don't.
		C)	In terms of those who work hard and take responsibility for themselves and those who don't.
		D)	In terms of those who are willing to exploit others and those willing to defend others from exploitation.


10	From whence came the ideas of economic justice used in the remaking of post-colonial India?
		A)	From imported British values.
		B)	From the values implicit in India's social caste structure.
		C)	From the Vedic scriptures.
		D)	From America.

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