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Take This Quiz About "Négritude"

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1 Question
30 seconds
Q.

The term "Négritude" arises from the __________ language.


English

French

Spanish

2 Question
30 seconds
Q.

In the political setup, Negritude was brought in to reject colonialism.


True

False

3 Question
30 seconds
Q.

________ was a poet who is credited for coining the word "Négritude".


Léopold Sédar Senghor

Abdoulaye Sadji

Aimé Césaire

4 Question
30 seconds
Q.

One of the major movements that the advocates of Négritude believed in was __________.


Pan-Africanism

Pan-Americanism

Pan-Humanism

5 Question
30 seconds
Q.

Activists and intellectuals applied _________ political philosophy, in the Black radical tradition.


Communist

Democratist

Marxist

6 Question
30 seconds
Q.

The term used to refer to the people who had been displaced from their motherland in large groups to another country is __________.


Diaspora

Emigrants

Refugees

7 Question
30 seconds
Q.

_____________ was a movement started by African Americans in the United States 1960s and was inspired by Negritude.


Afro-Surrealism

Creolite

Black is Beautiful

8 Question
30 seconds
Q.

The poem "Black Woman" sums up the concept of Négritude and personifies Africa as a ___________.


Goddess

Beautiful woman

Calm stream

9 Question
30 seconds
Q.

Pick out the Négritude poet who wrote the poem "Black Woman":


Abdou Diouf

Léon Damas

Léopold Sédar Senghor

10 Question
30 seconds
Q.

Négritude was seen as a call for all Africans to celebrate their race and to be proud of being black.


True

False

11 Question
30 seconds
Q.

__________ is a concept that implies that a minority group or culture must resemble a society's majority group and take up their values and beliefs.


Ascension

Segregation

Assimilation

12 Question
30 seconds
Q.

The Négritude philosophical movement came to action during _______.


The 1940s

The 1930s

The 1920s

13 Question
30 seconds
Q.

The Dutch Renaissance greatly influenced the Négritude philosophy.


True

False

14 Question
30 seconds
Q.

_________ was a writer and poet who is considered to be one among the first to lay the theoretical groundwork of Négritude.


Paulette Nardal

Jane Nardal

Both

15 Question
30 seconds
Q.

The Nardal sisters were among the first female black writers to be vocal about the problems faced by black people.


True

False

16 Question
30 seconds
Q.

The philosophy of Négritude opposed __________ against black communities.


Colonialism

Inhumanity

Both

17 Question
30 seconds
Q.

The three major personalities that are credited for starting the Négritude movement were Aimé Césaire, Leopold Senghor, and __________.


Léo Damas

Léon Damas

Liam Damas

18 Question
30 seconds
Q.

According to Aimé Césaire, the "decolonization of the mind" could be achieved only by the acceptance of "blackness". 


True

False

19 Question
30 seconds
Q.

Leopold Senghor's involvement in the Négritude ensured the independence of _________ from French colonizers.


Senegal

Ivory Coast

Niger

20 Question
30 seconds
Q.

____________ considered Négritude to be an "anti-racist racism" movement.


Michel Foucault

Jean-Paul Sartre

Jean Baudrillard