The Pedagogy of the Oppressed Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

Donald Macedo, Myra Bergman Ramos, and Paula Freire
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 114 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

The Pedagogy of the Oppressed Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

Donald Macedo, Myra Bergman Ramos, and Paula Freire
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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What occurs when the culture of oppression becomes internalized?
(a) The oppressed think they can do anything.
(b) The oppressed become fatalistic.
(c) The oppressed become free.
(d) The oppressed become violent.

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

4. In what way is pedagogy transmitted to the next generation, according to the author?
(a) Through education and the media.
(b) Through churches.
(c) Through self-learning.
(d) Through television adverts.

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

6. Why did Mr. Giddy hold his specific view on education?
(a) Because he liked the poor.
(b) Because he thought the poor didn't want to go to school.
(c) Because he thought the poor had better things to do than go to school.
(d) Because he thought the poor would become unhappy and unproductive workers.

7. How are philosophy and critical consciousness linked?
(a) Philosophy helps study principle truths and statements.
(b) Philosophy has a passing relevance to critical consciousness.
(c) Philosophers always encourage critical thinking.
(d) It isn't.

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

9. What does critical thinking help to analyzes, according to Friere?
(a) The Oppressors.
(b) Philosophers.
(c) The material reality, living conditions, and 'real' situation around the oppressed' lives.
(d) The Oppressed.

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

11. What is Mr Giddy's view on education?
(a) The poor should never be educated.
(b) Education is costly.
(c) n is a noble endeavor.
(d) The poor should always be educated.

12. Why, does Friere say, oppression is dehumanizing?
(a) Because it has to be.
(b) Because oppression cannot manage many people at one time.
(c) Because the oppressed are not treated as individuals any more.
(d) It doesn't mean to be.

13. What does Friere maintain in the Preface that his readers must be ready for?
(a) Anything.
(b) Change.
(c) Revolution.
(d) The time of their lives.

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

15. What does the author mean by the fear of freedom?
(a) The fear of being thrown in jail.
(b) Being allowed to say what you like.
(c) The mistaken idea of what being free looks like.
(d) Fear of authority figures.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a necrophilous person, according to Fromm?

2. Who was Paulo Friere?

3. Who was Karl Marx?

4. In what school of thought can the ideas of the book be placed?

5. Who are the Oppressors?

(see the answer keys)

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