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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Does one have to live in a tyrannical state to be oppressed?
(a) Most of the time.
(b) Yes.
(c) No, one can be oppressed by peer pressure, economics, fashion and trends.
(d) No.

2. Who was Gabriel Bode?
(a) A Brazilian teacher.
(b) A Russian Marxist.
(c) A Chilean educator.
(d) A Chilean dictator.

3. What does Friere write is the role of the teacher in traditional education?
(a) To help students.
(b) To be an authoritarian figure.
(c) To ignore the students.
(d) To give the students better job chances.

4. In what ways, according to Friere, does the educator have power over the students’ knowledge?
(a) The educator gives out gold stars to good students.
(b) The educator knows where the textbooks are kept.
(c) The educator knows which answer is right and wrong.
(d) Only the educator can write on the blackboard.

5. What is propositional thinking?
(a) Talking mostly fantasies.
(b) Talking about marriage.
(c) Analyzing an argument in terms of its fundamental propositions (or positions).
(d) Talking about politics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Paolo Friere mean by critical thinking?

2. Which of the following is a form of Limit Act?

3. What does 'exclusive education' mean?

4. What does Friere call this system of oppressive education?

5. How does Friere's problem-solving education promote equality?

(see the answer key)

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