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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 an a-priori truth?
(a) A truth that everyone knows.
(b) A fundamentally correct and undeniable truth.
(c) A fraudulent truth.
(d) A truth that is hidden an very few people know.

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

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

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

5. What is tyranny?
(a) A type of education system.
(b) A system where everyone shares the wealth.
(c) A type of lizard.
(d) A power-hungry ruler.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who do the Oppressed blame for their status in life?

2. Who was Mr. Giddy?

3. When was this book written?

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

5. What does Friere propose to do to the education system?

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