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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. What is a revolutionary?

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

3. What is a necrophilous person, according to Fromm?

4. What does critical thinking help to analyzes, according to Friere?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the Fear of Freedom?

2. Which thinker came up with the term necrophilous?

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

4. What is the importance of critical thought to the author?

5. What is Phenomenology?

6. What is a necrophilous personality?

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

8. What is a pedagogy?

9. What is the Culture of Oppression?

10. Who was Paulo Friere?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the importance of Friere's own upbringing and place of birth on Friere's thought.

Essay Topic 2

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 3

How could Freire's pedagogy for the oppressed be applied in an inner-city classroom? Can the pedagogy be adapted to public school classrooms (typically institutions of oppression, according to Freire)?

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