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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 it mean to be one of the oppressed?
(a) Oppression means you are incarcerated.
(b) Oppression means your freedoms, wants and desires are curtailed by others who hold power over your actions.
(c) Oppression means you live with the threat of death.
(d) Oppression means you live under occupation.

2. 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.

3. Who was Karl Marx?
(a) A political theorist, one of the fathers of Communism.
(b) A leader of armies.
(c) A Russian Premier.
(d) A historical industrialist.

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

5. What does Friere think the true goal of education is?
(a) To make good grade statistics.
(b) To enhance one's career choices.
(c) To give the school a good name.
(d) To empower students.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was Mr. Giddy?

2. How are philosophy and critical consciousness linked?

3. Why does Frier use the example of Mr. Giddy?

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

5. What is a revolutionary?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does it mean to be humanized?

2. Why does Paulo Friere think that critical thinking is so important?

3. What is a necrophilous personality?

4. What is a pedagogy?

5. Who was Mr. Giddy?

6. What is the Fear of Freedom?

7. What is the Culture of Oppression?

8. Is Friere's revolution a violent one?

9. Who was Paulo Friere?

10. How can we oppose oppressive pedagogies?

(see the answer keys)

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