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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who are the Oppressors?
(a) Those in charge of society.
(b) A type of soldier.
(c) A music group.
(d) Those at the bottom of society.

2. How are the oppressed classes usually stereotyped by their oppressors?
(a) As honest.
(b) As weak.
(c) As natural leaders.
(d) As lazy and stupid.

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

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

5. What is a critical consciousness?
(a) A view that questions everything around itself.
(b) An overly suspicious mind.
(c) A high achiever.
(d) An overly argumentative person.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was Eric Fromm?

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

3. Why, does Friere say, oppression is dehumanizing?

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

5. What point of view is this book written from?

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