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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who was Karl Marx?
(a) A Russian Premier.
(b) A leader of armies.
(c) A political theorist, one of the fathers of Communism.
(d) A historical industrialist.

2. What is a 'culture of oppression' according to Friere?
(a) Televisual society.
(b) When entire societal views, media and beliefs that are based around maintaining class structure.
(c) American Senate system.
(d) European government.

3. What is the traditional power structure between teacher and students?
(a) The teacher has power while the student has none.
(b) The teacher has no power and the student has it all.
(c) Neither teacher or student have power.
(d) Both teacher and student have power.

4. What does Friere propose to do to the education system?
(a) To enforce it.
(b) To control it.
(c) Create a new sort of education that is based on partnership.
(d) To reinforce it.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What, in the author’s estimation, is a critical consciousness?

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

3. How does Friere use the term ‘Subject’ in his book?

4. What is the purpose of critical pedagogy?

5. What occurs when the culture of oppression becomes internalized?

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