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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What, in the author’s estimation, is a critical consciousness?
(a) A form of mental illness.
(b) A mind that never questions anything.
(c) The ability to question everything rationally.
(d) A very important individual.

2. When was this book written?
(a) 1958.
(b) 1968.
(c) 1948.
(d) 1978.

3. What is the goal of critical consciousness?
(a) To become the best in society.
(b) To be the perfect worker at your job.
(c) To become fully humanized.
(d) To lead a revolution.

4. What is pedagogy?
(a) A system of religious thought.
(b) A system of educating or training.
(c) A system for oppression.
(d) A philosophy.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Paolo Friere mean by critical thinking?

2. Who are the Oppressors?

3. Who will become freed when the Oppressed rise up?

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

5. Why do we need to become humanized, according to Friere?

(see the answer key)

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