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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Friere mean by ‘Conscientization’?
(a) Not reacting violently.
(b) Spreading the good news about liberty.
(c) A conscious awareness of one's own situation.
(d) An awareness of someone else's situation.

2. What is a ‘Limit Situation’?
(a) A situation that frees the Subject.
(b) A situation that holds back the Subject.
(c) A situation with no themes involved.
(d) A Situation where the Subject has to confront their emotions.

3. What issues does Friere believe the educator should be looking at?
(a) Ones that face the local people.
(b) Ones on his syllabus.
(c) Ones that interest his society.
(d) Ones that interest him.

4. How must the problem in Friere's system be presented to the student?
(a) The problem must be chosen by the student.
(b) The problem must be related to their lives in some way.
(c) The problem must be given to the student by the teacher.
(d) The problem must be unrelated to the student’s personal experience.

5. What does Friere think the true goal of education is?
(a) To enhance one's career choices.
(b) To make good grade statistics.
(c) To give the school a good name.
(d) To empower students.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How much power do the Oppressors have?

3. Why is solidarity with the oppressed important, according to Friere?

4. What did the philosopher Plato conceive of education as?

5. What does the author mean by the fear of freedom?

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