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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 lets them know what you feel about them.
(c) Because dialogue allows you to plan how to fight back.
(d) Because dialogue encourages critical thinking from one individual to another.

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

3. Why is it important in Friere's estimation to break static reality?
(a) Freedom allows us to evolve as a species and to not be manipulated or used.
(b) Because static reality costs too much money.
(c) Because static reality is too unhealthy.
(d) Because it is fun.

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

5. Who is the author of this book?
(a) Lenin.
(b) Erich Fromm.
(c) Paulo Friere.
(d) Karl Marx.

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

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

8. 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.

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

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

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

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

13. What is tyranny?
(a) A type of education system.
(b) A type of lizard.
(c) A power-hungry ruler.
(d) A system where everyone shares the wealth.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a critical consciousness?

2. Who in Friere's argument are necrophilous personalities?

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

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

5. What is Mr Giddy's view on education?

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