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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who do the Oppressed blame for their status in life?
(a) Anyone but their oppressors.
(b) No one.
(c) Others.
(d) Themselves.

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

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

4. Why do we need to become humanized, according to Friere?
(a) Because humanization will make us richer.
(b) Because humanization will make us more friends.
(c) Because humanization is a symptom of healthy psychological development.
(d) Because humanization will make us fitter.

5. How important is critical thinking to Friere?
(a) It is the most natural human imperative.
(b) To some degree.
(c) Not very.
(d) Not at all.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a critical consciousness?

2. In what way is pedagogy transmitted to the next generation, according to the author?

3. Why are power structures necessarily bad, according to Friere?

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

5. How are the oppressed classes usually stereotyped by their oppressors?

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