Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)

1. The psychological effects of colonialism on the colonized is a central concern of Franz Fanon’s The Wretched of the Earth.
2. Franz Fanon’s The Wretched of the Earth draws on Emile Durkheim to show the importance of religious rituals to colonial subjects.
3. Franz Fanon, like Karl Marx, prioritizes class divisions to underscore the relationship between oppressed and oppressor.
4. Postcolonial theorists argue that Western knowledge oversimplifies the distinction between the European world and the rest of the world.
5. For Edward Said, discourse is a form of power.


1. False
2. False
3. False
4. True
5. True

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