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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 propose to do to the education system?
(a) To control it.
(b) To enforce it.
(c) To reinforce it.
(d) Create a new sort of education that is based on partnership.

2. Why, does Friere say, oppression is dehumanizing?
(a) Because oppression cannot manage many people at one time.
(b) Because it has to be.
(c) It doesn't mean to be.
(d) Because the oppressed are not treated as individuals any more.

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

4. Who are the Oppressors?
(a) A music group.
(b) Those at the bottom of society.
(c) A type of soldier.
(d) Those in charge of society.

5. What is propaganda?
(a) A type of school.
(b) The spread of state-sponsored lies, views or opinions.
(c) A type of society.
(d) A type of philosophy.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is meant by the term ‘poverty of opportunity’?

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

3. Who is the author of this book?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the Fear of Freedom?

2. What is the humanizing process?

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

4. What is Phenomenology?

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

6. Who was Erich Fromm?

7. How do the Oppressors characterize the Oppressed?

8. What is the Culture of Oppression?

9. What is the purpose of critical pedagogy?

10. What happens when the Culture of Oppression becomes internalized?

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