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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What is propaganda?
(a) A type of school.
(b) A type of society.
(c) The spread of state-sponsored lies, views or opinions.
(d) A type of philosophy.

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

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

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

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

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

11. What does Friere propose to do to the education system?
(a) Create a new sort of education that is based on partnership.
(b) To reinforce it.
(c) To control it.
(d) To enforce it.

12. What is a poverty of the mind in this context?
(a) The lack of ways to imagine ones situation.
(b) A lack of intelligence.
(c) A lack of education.
(d) A lack of guidance.

13. What is an a-priori truth?
(a) A fraudulent truth.
(b) A truth that everyone knows.
(c) A fundamentally correct and undeniable truth.
(d) A truth that is hidden an very few people know.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the job of the Preface?

2. What is meant by the term ‘poverty of opportunity’?

3. Who was Eric Fromm?

4. Who are the Oppressors?

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

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