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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 high achiever.
(b) An overly argumentative person.
(c) An overly suspicious mind.
(d) A view that questions everything around itself.

2. What is a 'culture of oppression' according to Friere?
(a) American Senate system.
(b) When entire societal views, media and beliefs that are based around maintaining class structure.
(c) European government.
(d) Televisual society.

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

4. 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.

5. Who was Eric Fromm?
(a) An artist.
(b) An actor.
(c) A sculptor.
(d) A social philosopher and social critic.

6. 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 fundamentally correct and undeniable truth.
(d) A fraudulent truth.

7. What is meant by the term ‘poverty of opportunity’?
(a) The lack of well-paid jobs to offer.
(b) The lack of social opportunities open to members of society.
(c) The inability to move house because of poverty.
(d) The inability to afford food because of poverty.

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

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

10. What is the purpose of critical pedagogy?
(a) To spread a religion.
(b) To inspect schools.
(c) To oppose oppression.
(d) To look out for failing students.

11. What is propositional thinking?
(a) Talking about marriage.
(b) Analyzing an argument in terms of its fundamental propositions (or positions).
(c) Talking mostly fantasies.
(d) Talking about politics.

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

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

14. What is the job of the Preface?
(a) To warn readers.
(b) To inform the reader of the later ideas of the book.
(c) To act as a government health warning.
(d) To tell the readers what they should know.

15. In what school of thought can the ideas of the book be placed?
(a) Totalitarianism.
(b) Fascism.
(c) Critical theory.
(d) Theology.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does it mean to be an actualized or fully humanized human being, according to Friere?

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

3. Why is it important in Friere's estimation to break static reality?

4. Why is dialogue so important to break these oppressive pedagogies?

5. What is a revolutionary?

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