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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. 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.

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

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

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

10. Who or what is the 'ruling elite'?
(a) A type of fascist government.
(b) The masses.
(c) A way of governing schools.
(d) The governors of society who also enjoy luxury and freedoms not permitted to the oppressed.

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

12. What does Friere state unapologetically that his position is?
(a) Reactionary.
(b) Republican.
(c) Revolutionary.
(d) Fascism.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who will become freed when the Oppressed rise up?

2. Why are power structures necessarily bad, according to Friere?

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

4. How are philosophy and critical consciousness linked?

5. Who are the Oppressors?

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