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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the job of the Preface?
(a) To tell the readers what they should know.
(b) To inform the reader of the later ideas of the book.
(c) To act as a government health warning.
(d) To warn readers.

2. What is a poverty of the mind in this context?
(a) A lack of education.
(b) A lack of intelligence.
(c) A lack of guidance.
(d) The lack of ways to imagine ones situation.

3. What is the purpose of critical pedagogy?
(a) To inspect schools.
(b) To oppose oppression.
(c) To spread a religion.
(d) To look out for failing students.

4. What is tyranny?
(a) A power-hungry ruler.
(b) A type of lizard.
(c) A type of education system.
(d) A system where everyone shares the wealth.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why are power structures necessarily bad, according to Friere?

2. How are philosophy and critical consciousness linked?

3. What does it mean to be an actualized or fully humanized human being, according to Friere?

4. Who was Paulo Friere?

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

(see the answer key)

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