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

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

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

4. Why are power structures necessarily bad, according to Friere?
(a) Because those at the top always turn into dictators.
(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 they cost a lot to maintain.

5. What is phenomenology?
(a) The study of the head.
(b) The study of other cultures.
(c) The study of thought and thinking.
(d) The study of the hands.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Friere maintain in the Preface that his readers must be ready for?

2. Who is the author of this book?

3. What is a revolutionary?

4. Why is dialogue so important to break these oppressive pedagogies?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What does critical thinking lead to, according to Friere?

2. How can we oppose oppressive pedagogies?

3. What is the Culture of Oppression?

4. Who was Mr. Giddy?

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

6. What is a necrophilous personality?

7. What is the difference between a revolutionary, a reactionary and a rebel?

8. Which thinker came up with the term necrophilous?

9. Is Friere's revolution a violent one?

10. What is the Fear of Freedom?

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