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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What occurs when the culture of oppression becomes internalized?
(a) The oppressed become fatalistic.
(b) The oppressed become free.
(c) The oppressed think they can do anything.
(d) The oppressed become violent.

2. What does the author mean by the fear of freedom?
(a) Fear of authority figures.
(b) Being allowed to say what you like.
(c) The fear of being thrown in jail.
(d) The mistaken idea of what being free looks like.

3. Who is the author of this book?
(a) Lenin.
(b) Erich Fromm.
(c) Paulo Friere.
(d) Karl Marx.

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

5. What is propaganda?
(a) A type of society.
(b) A type of philosophy.
(c) A type of school.
(d) The spread of state-sponsored lies, views or opinions.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Friere maintain in the Preface that his readers must be ready for?

2. What is a radical in this context?

3. Who was Paulo Friere?

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

5. What is a 'culture of oppression' according to Friere?

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