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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Mr. Giddy hold his specific view on education?

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

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

4. Why does Frier use the example of Mr. Giddy?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Is Friere's revolution a violent one?

2. What is the humanizing process?

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

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

5. What is a pedagogy?

6. Who was Erich Fromm?

7. What is the Fear of Freedom?

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

9. What is Phenomenology?

10. How do the Oppressors characterize the Oppressed?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

With reference to Friere's work, what does dialogical and anti-dialogical mean? How do the opposing sides of the Oppressors and the Oppressed use these techniques?

Essay Topic 2

Why was it important to Friere that the revolutionary leader come from the margins or even outside of the system that they are trying to overthrow?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss Friere's idea of Epochal Units. Is this a simplistic way of looking at cultural history or do you believe it to be accurate? Cite your societies own Epochal Units.

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