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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Friere maintain in the Preface that his readers must be ready for?
(a) Anything.
(b) Revolution.
(c) Change.
(d) The time of their lives.

2. Who in Friere's argument are necrophilous personalities?
(a) The Oppressed.
(b) The Educators.
(c) The Students.
(d) The Oppressors.

3. What is Friere's conception of the static reality?
(a) The type of society created by the ruling Oppressors.
(b) A reality that changes constantly.
(c) A type of society that predominately uses electricity.
(d) A reality created by the truly free.

4. What does Paolo Friere mean by critical thinking?
(a) The ability to be overly critical and negative.
(b) The ability to question things.
(c) The ability to study philosophy.
(d) The ability to discern good from bad.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does it mean to be one of the oppressed?

2. When was this book written?

3. What is the goal of critical consciousness?

4. How are philosophy and critical consciousness linked?

5. What, according to Friere, must the Oppressed have the courage to do?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who was Erich Fromm?

2. What does Paulo Friere want to change about the education system?

3. What happens when the Culture of Oppression becomes internalized?

4. How do the Oppressors characterize the Oppressed?

5. Why does Paulo Friere think that critical thinking is so important?

6. What is a pedagogy?

7. What does it mean to be humanized?

8. Is Friere's revolution a violent one?

9. What is the purpose of critical pedagogy?

10. Who was Paulo Friere?

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