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

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

3. How are the oppressed classes usually stereotyped by their oppressors?
(a) As honest.
(b) As lazy and stupid.
(c) As weak.
(d) As natural leaders.

4. What is an Authority figure?
(a) Someone we look up to.
(b) Someone who has power over those below them.
(c) Someone we should look up to.
(d) Someone we always look up to.

5. In what way is pedagogy transmitted to the next generation, according to the author?
(a) Through churches.
(b) Through television adverts.
(c) Through self-learning.
(d) Through education and the media.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Friere think the true goal of education is?

2. What point of view is this book written from?

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

4. When was this book written?

5. Who in Friere's argument are necrophilous personalities?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Phenomenology?

2. Which thinker came up with the term necrophilous?

3. What is the Culture of Oppression?

4. What is the Fear of Freedom?

5. What does it mean to be humanized?

6. Who was Erich Fromm?

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

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

9. Who was Paulo Friere?

10. Is Friere's revolution a violent one?

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