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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. How much power do the Oppressors have?
(a) Limited power.
(b) Total power.
(c) They always have more power than everyone else in society.
(d) Hardly any power at all.

4. What is a ‘revolutionary act’?
(a) A political act using violent methods.
(b) An action that challenges the status quo.
(c) A political act using peaceful methods.
(d) An action designed to bring down the society.

5. Who does Friere explain is dehumanized through the Oppression and Oppressed relationship?
(a) The Oppressed.
(b) Both parties.
(c) The Oppressors.
(d) Neither.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Friere mean by ‘Conscientization’?

2. Why, according to Friere, do oppressive regimes maintain untested feasibilities?

3. What is the duality of the thematic universe?

4. What characterizes an Untested Feasibility?

5. How does Friere use the term ‘Subject’ in his book?

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