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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay 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 mistaken idea of what being free looks like.
(c) The fear of being thrown in jail.
(d) Fear of authority figures.

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

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

4. What point of view is this book written from?
(a) Third person.
(b) Second person.
(c) First person.
(d) Fourth person.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is a poverty of the mind in this context?

3. What is a radical in this context?

4. Why did Mr. Giddy hold his specific view on education?

5. What is an a-priori truth?

Short Essay Questions

1. Is Friere's revolution a violent one?

2. What is the humanizing process?

3. What is the Culture of Oppression?

4. Who was Erich Fromm?

5. What is a pedagogy?

6. What must first happen before there is a revolution?

7. What is the Fear of Freedom?

8. What is the purpose of critical pedagogy?

9. Who was Mr. Giddy?

10. What does Paulo Friere want to change about the education system?

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