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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 Mr Giddy's view on education?
(a) Education is costly.
(b) n is a noble endeavor.
(c) The poor should always be educated.
(d) The poor should never be educated.

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

3. Why is dialogue so important to break these oppressive pedagogies?
(a) Because dialogue lets them know what you feel about them.
(b) Because dialogue allows you to plan how to fight back.
(c) Because dialogue encourages critical thinking from one individual to another.
(d) Because dialogue allows you to shout louder than them.

4. What is a poverty of the mind in this context?
(a) A lack of intelligence.
(b) A lack of education.
(c) A lack of guidance.
(d) The lack of ways to imagine ones situation.

5. According to Friere, what must the Oppressed first learn to do if they want to be free?
(a) To subvert the system.
(b) To overthrow their masters.
(c) To question for themselves.
(d) To run away.

Short Answer Questions

1. What, in the author’s estimation, is a critical consciousness?

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

3. What is tyranny?

4. What does it mean to be one of the oppressed?

5. Who are the Oppressors?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who was Erich Fromm?

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

3. Is Friere's revolution a violent one?

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

5. Which thinker came up with the term necrophilous?

6. What is the purpose of critical pedagogy?

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

8. What does it mean to be humanized?

9. What is a pedagogy?

10. What is a necrophilous personality?

(see the answer keys)

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