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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is a necrophilous person, according to Fromm?
(a) Someone who studies the dead.
(b) Someone who studies beetles.
(c) Someone who wants life controlled, mechanized and ordered.
(d) Someone who studies the past.

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

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

4. What is a poverty of the mind in this context?
(a) A lack of guidance.
(b) A lack of intelligence.
(c) A lack of education.
(d) The lack of ways to imagine ones situation.

5. What, according to Friere, must the Oppressed have the courage to do?
(a) To go to school.
(b) To challenge one another.
(c) To overthrow the system of oppression.
(d) To attack the ruling class.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is propaganda?

3. How important is critical thinking to Friere?

4. In what school of thought can the ideas of the book be placed?

5. What is an a-priori truth?

(see the answer key)

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