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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 is a radical in this context?
(a) A type of person who agrees with everyone around them.
(b) A person whose views and actions are starkly different to those around them.
(c) A type of chemical.
(d) A type of politician.

2. 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.

3. Why does Frier use the example of Mr. Giddy?
(a) As examples of Oppressive thinking.
(b) As an example of critical thinking.
(c) As an example of fully humanized thinking.
(d) As an example of one of the Oppressed.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Does one have to live in a tyrannical state to be oppressed?

2. What is a critical consciousness?

3. Who was Eric Fromm?

4. In what way is pedagogy transmitted to the next generation, according to the author?

5. What is propaganda?

Short Essay Questions

1. How can we oppose oppressive pedagogies?

2. Who was Mr. Giddy?

3. What is the purpose of critical pedagogy?

4. What is the importance of critical thought to the author?

5. What does it mean to be humanized?

6. Who was Erich Fromm?

7. What does critical thinking lead to, according to Friere?

8. What is a necrophilous personality?

9. What must first happen before there is a revolution?

10. What is the difference between a revolutionary, a reactionary and a rebel?

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