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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Marxism?
(a) A company.
(b) A type of education system.
(c) The idea that the power must be in the hands of an egalitarian society.
(d) Another word for Russian.

2. What is an a-priori truth?
(a) A fundamentally correct and undeniable truth.
(b) A truth that everyone knows.
(c) A fraudulent truth.
(d) A truth that is hidden an very few people know.

3. Why is it important in Friere's estimation to break static reality?
(a) Freedom allows us to evolve as a species and to not be manipulated or used.
(b) Because static reality is too unhealthy.
(c) Because static reality costs too much money.
(d) Because it is fun.

4. Who was Eric Fromm?
(a) An artist.
(b) A social philosopher and social critic.
(c) An actor.
(d) A sculptor.

5. What is meant by the term ‘poverty of opportunity’?
(a) The lack of well-paid jobs to offer.
(b) The inability to afford food because of poverty.
(c) The lack of social opportunities open to members of society.
(d) The inability to move house because of poverty.

6. What does the author mean by the fear of freedom?
(a) The fear of being thrown in jail.
(b) Being allowed to say what you like.
(c) The mistaken idea of what being free looks like.
(d) Fear of authority figures.

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

8. According to Friere, what must the Oppressed first learn to do if they want to be free?
(a) To subvert the system.
(b) To question for themselves.
(c) To run away.
(d) To overthrow their masters.

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

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

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

12. What is a poverty of the mind in this context?
(a) The lack of ways to imagine ones situation.
(b) A lack of education.
(c) A lack of guidance.
(d) A lack of intelligence.

13. What is a revolutionary?
(a) Someone who agrees with their rulers.
(b) One who seeks to destroy society.
(c) One who wants a complete change in the structure and order of society.
(d) One who disagrees with anything told to them.

14. What is an Authority figure?
(a) Someone who has power over those below them.
(b) Someone we always look up to.
(c) Someone we should look up to.
(d) Someone we look up to.

15. What is the purpose of critical pedagogy?
(a) To oppose oppression.
(b) To look out for failing students.
(c) To inspect schools.
(d) To spread a religion.

Short Answer Questions

1. How important is critical thinking to Friere?

2. What is Mr Giddy's view on education?

3. Who is the author of this book?

4. What is propaganda?

5. Who in Friere's argument are necrophilous personalities?

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