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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is a critical consciousness?
(a) A view that questions everything around itself.
(b) A high achiever.
(c) An overly suspicious mind.
(d) An overly argumentative person.

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

3. Who was Mr. Giddy?
(a) An actor.
(b) A Brazilian Premier.
(c) A Marxist Revolutionary.
(d) A president of the Royal Society.

4. Who will become freed when the Oppressed rise up?
(a) Only the very poorest.
(b) Both Oppressed and the Oppressors.
(c) The Oppressors.
(d) The Oppressed.

5. What is Philosophy?
(a) The study of art.
(b) The study of knowledge.
(c) The study of history.
(d) The study of music.

6. How are the oppressed classes usually stereotyped by their oppressors?
(a) As weak.
(b) As lazy and stupid.
(c) As honest.
(d) As natural leaders.

7. 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.

8. According to Friere, what must the Oppressed first learn to do if they want to be free?
(a) To overthrow their masters.
(b) To question for themselves.
(c) To subvert the system.
(d) To run away.

9. Why is dialogue so important to break these oppressive pedagogies?
(a) Because dialogue encourages critical thinking from one individual to another.
(b) Because dialogue allows you to shout louder than them.
(c) Because dialogue allows you to plan how to fight back.
(d) Because dialogue lets them know what you feel about them.

10. What does Friere think the true goal of education is?
(a) To enhance one's career choices.
(b) To give the school a good name.
(c) To empower students.
(d) To make good grade statistics.

11. Who was Paulo Friere?
(a) A Russian revolutionary.
(b) An American academic.
(c) A British subvert.
(d) A Brazilian teacher, socialist and educator.

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

13. What, in the author’s estimation, is a critical consciousness?
(a) A mind that never questions anything.
(b) A very important individual.
(c) A form of mental illness.
(d) The ability to question everything rationally.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the goal of critical consciousness?

2. Why does Frier use the example of Mr. Giddy?

3. What is an Authority figure?

4. What does Friere maintain in the Preface that his readers must be ready for?

5. What is tyranny?

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