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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Preface.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what school of thought can the ideas of the book be placed?
(a) Critical theory.
(b) Theology.
(c) Fascism.
(d) Totalitarianism.

2. Who was Paulo Friere?
(a) An American academic.
(b) A Russian revolutionary.
(c) A Brazilian teacher, socialist and educator.
(d) A British subvert.

3. What is the job of the Preface?
(a) To inform the reader of the later ideas of the book.
(b) To tell the readers what they should know.
(c) To act as a government health warning.
(d) To warn readers.

4. What is a 'culture of oppression' according to Friere?
(a) American Senate system.
(b) European government.
(c) Televisual society.
(d) When entire societal views, media and beliefs that are based around maintaining class structure.

5. What does it mean to be one of the oppressed?
(a) Oppression means you are incarcerated.
(b) Oppression means you live with the threat of death.
(c) Oppression means you live under occupation.
(d) Oppression means your freedoms, wants and desires are curtailed by others who hold power over your actions.

Short Answer Questions

1. What point of view is this book written from?

2. What is the purpose of critical pedagogy?

3. What occurs when the culture of oppression becomes internalized?

4. What, in the author’s estimation, is a critical consciousness?

5. How important is critical thinking to Friere?

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