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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who are the Oppressors?
(a) Those at the bottom of society.
(b) Those in charge of society.
(c) A music group.
(d) A type of soldier.

2. Who or what is the 'ruling elite'?
(a) The masses.
(b) A type of fascist government.
(c) A way of governing schools.
(d) The governors of society who also enjoy luxury and freedoms not permitted to the oppressed.

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

4. What is a necrophilous person, according to Fromm?
(a) Someone who studies beetles.
(b) Someone who studies the dead.
(c) Someone who wants life controlled, mechanized and ordered.
(d) Someone who studies the past.

5. Why did Mr. Giddy hold his specific view on education?
(a) Because he thought the poor didn't want to go to school.
(b) Because he thought the poor would become unhappy and unproductive workers.
(c) Because he liked the poor.
(d) Because he thought the poor had better things to do than go to school.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Philosophy?

2. What is phenomenology?

3. How are the oppressed classes usually stereotyped by their oppressors?

4. Who is the author of this book?

5. What is a critical consciousness?

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