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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How are philosophy and critical consciousness linked?
(a) Philosophers always encourage critical thinking.
(b) Philosophy helps study principle truths and statements.
(c) Philosophy has a passing relevance to critical consciousness.
(d) It isn't.

2. 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.

3. What, according to Friere, must the Oppressed have the courage to do?
(a) To attack the ruling class.
(b) To overthrow the system of oppression.
(c) To challenge one another.
(d) To go to school.

4. Who will become freed when the Oppressed rise up?
(a) Both Oppressed and the Oppressors.
(b) The Oppressors.
(c) Only the very poorest.
(d) The Oppressed.

5. Who was Karl Marx?
(a) A political theorist, one of the fathers of Communism.
(b) A leader of armies.
(c) A Russian Premier.
(d) A historical industrialist.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a critical consciousness?

2. What is a 'culture of oppression' according to Friere?

3. Who was Paulo Friere?

4. What does Friere propose to do to the education system?

5. Who or what is the 'ruling elite'?

(see the answer key)

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