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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

4. Who does Friere explain is dehumanized through the Oppression and Oppressed relationship?
(a) Neither.
(b) The Oppressors.
(c) Both parties.
(d) The Oppressed.

5. Why are power structures necessarily bad, according to Friere?
(a) Because they cost a lot to maintain.
(b) Because those at the top always turn into dictators.
(c) Because they always have the weak at the bottom and the strong at the top.
(d) Because those at the bottom express unthinking loyalty.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was Eric Fromm?

2. What does Friere state unapologetically that his position is?

3. What occurs when the culture of oppression becomes internalized?

4. What is phenomenology?

5. What does it mean to be an actualized or fully humanized human being, according to Friere?

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