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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 Marxism?
(a) A type of education system.
(b) A company.
(c) The idea that the power must be in the hands of an egalitarian society.
(d) Another word for Russian.

2. Does one have to live in a tyrannical state to be oppressed?
(a) Yes.
(b) No, one can be oppressed by peer pressure, economics, fashion and trends.
(c) Most of the time.
(d) No.

3. What does it mean to be an actualized or fully humanized human being, according to Friere?
(a) To be of democratic voting age.
(b) To be enlightened.
(c) To possess true freedom of thought.
(d) To follow a particular system of thought.

4. What does it mean to be one of the oppressed?
(a) Oppression means you live under occupation.
(b) Oppression means you are incarcerated.
(c) Oppression means you live with the threat of death.
(d) Oppression means your freedoms, wants and desires are curtailed by others who hold power over your actions.

5. Why are power structures necessarily bad, according to Friere?
(a) Because those at the bottom express unthinking loyalty.
(b) Because they cost a lot to maintain.
(c) Because those at the top always turn into dictators.
(d) Because they always have the weak at the bottom and the strong at the top.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How are philosophy and critical consciousness linked?

3. What is pedagogy?

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

5. What, according to Friere, must the Oppressed have the courage to do?

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