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

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

3. What is Marxism?
(a) Another word for Russian.
(b) A type of education system.
(c) The idea that the power must be in the hands of an egalitarian society.
(d) A company.

4. What occurs when the culture of oppression becomes internalized?
(a) The oppressed become fatalistic.
(b) The oppressed become free.
(c) The oppressed think they can do anything.
(d) The oppressed become violent.

5. What is a critical consciousness?
(a) A high achiever.
(b) An overly argumentative person.
(c) An overly suspicious mind.
(d) A view that questions everything around itself.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was Eric Fromm?

2. How are philosophy and critical consciousness linked?

3. What is a necrophilous person, according to Fromm?

4. Who does Friere explain is dehumanized through the Oppression and Oppressed relationship?

5. What is phenomenology?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How can we oppose oppressive pedagogies?

4. Who was Erich Fromm?

5. Is Friere's revolution a violent one?

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

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

8. What is a pedagogy?

9. Which thinker came up with the term necrophilous?

10. What does it mean to be humanized?

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