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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Friere disagree with Banking Education?
(a) Because he dislikes students.
(b) Because he dislikes teachers.
(c) Because it disregards to students entirely.
(d) Because it gives the students too much power.

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

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

4. What is the goal of critical consciousness?
(a) To lead a revolution.
(b) To be the perfect worker at your job.
(c) To become the best in society.
(d) To become fully humanized.

5. How important is critical thinking to Friere?
(a) It is the most natural human imperative.
(b) Not very.
(c) Not at all.
(d) To some degree.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the job of the Preface?

3. What is an Authority figure?

4. In Friere's system, what is the educator's relationship to the oppressed?

5. Which social institution supports and continues oppression?

(see the answer key)

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