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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who do the Oppressed blame for their status in life?
(a) Themselves.
(b) Others.
(c) No one.
(d) Anyone but their oppressors.

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

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

5. Who are the Oppressors?
(a) A type of soldier.
(b) Those at the bottom of society.
(c) A music group.
(d) Those in charge of society.

6. Who was Karl Marx?
(a) A leader of armies.
(b) A political theorist, one of the fathers of Communism.
(c) A Russian Premier.
(d) A historical industrialist.

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

8. What is the goal of critical consciousness?
(a) To lead a revolution.
(b) To become the best in society.
(c) To become fully humanized.
(d) To be the perfect worker at your job.

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

10. What is a necrophilous person, according to Fromm?
(a) Someone who studies the past.
(b) Someone who studies the dead.
(c) Someone who studies beetles.
(d) Someone who wants life controlled, mechanized and ordered.

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

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

13. What does Paolo Friere mean by critical thinking?
(a) The ability to be overly critical and negative.
(b) The ability to study philosophy.
(c) The ability to discern good from bad.
(d) The ability to question things.

14. What is an Authority figure?
(a) Someone we should look up to.
(b) Someone we always look up to.
(c) Someone we look up to.
(d) Someone who has power over those below them.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Friere think the true goal of education is?

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

3. What does Friere propose to do to the education system?

4. Who does Friere explain is dehumanized through the Oppression and Oppressed relationship?

5. What is a revolutionary?

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