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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 Paolo Friere mean by critical thinking?
(a) The ability to discern good from bad.
(b) The ability to be overly critical and negative.
(c) The ability to question things.
(d) The ability to study philosophy.

2. What does the author mean by the fear of freedom?
(a) Fear of authority figures.
(b) Being allowed to say what you like.
(c) The mistaken idea of what being free looks like.
(d) The fear of being thrown in jail.

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

4. Who was Paulo Friere?
(a) A British subvert.
(b) A Brazilian teacher, socialist and educator.
(c) A Russian revolutionary.
(d) An American academic.

5. What is a necrophilous person, according to Fromm?
(a) Someone who studies the dead.
(b) Someone who studies the past.
(c) Someone who wants life controlled, mechanized and ordered.
(d) Someone who studies beetles.

Short Answer Questions

1. Does one have to live in a tyrannical state to be oppressed?

2. What is a poverty of the mind in this context?

3. What is Marxism?

4. What is propositional thinking?

5. What is an a-priori truth?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Is Friere's revolution a violent one?

3. Who was Paulo Friere?

4. What is the Culture of Oppression?

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

6. What is a necrophilous personality?

7. What is a pedagogy?

8. What does it mean to be humanized?

9. What is the humanizing process?

10. What is Phenomenology?

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