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

2. How are philosophy and critical consciousness linked?
(a) Philosophy helps study principle truths and statements.
(b) Philosophers always encourage critical thinking.
(c) Philosophy has a passing relevance to critical consciousness.
(d) It isn't.

3. Who in Friere's argument are necrophilous personalities?
(a) The Oppressed.
(b) The Educators.
(c) The Students.
(d) The Oppressors.

4. What is the job of the Preface?
(a) To warn readers.
(b) To tell the readers what they should know.
(c) To inform the reader of the later ideas of the book.
(d) To act as a government health warning.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a poverty of the mind in this context?

2. What is an a-priori truth?

3. What is a revolutionary?

4. Who was Mr. Giddy?

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

(see the answer key)

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