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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did the philosopher Plato conceive of education as?
(a) Of a form of propaganda.
(b) The drawing out of ideas already submerged within the student.
(c) Of telling the student what to think and what not to think.
(d) The instilling of a moral code into a student.

2. How does Friere use the term ‘Subject’ in his book?
(a) To denote a class of study.
(b) To denote a person who is in charge of others.
(c) To denote a person who is fully aware and able to act freely.
(d) To denote a class of society.

3. What does Friere call this system of oppressive education?
(a) Military Education.
(b) Problem-Solving Education.
(c) Banking Education.
(d) Problem-Posing Education.

4. When was this book written?
(a) 1978.
(b) 1948.
(c) 1968.
(d) 1958.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who are the Oppressors?

2. Why is dialogue so important to break these oppressive pedagogies?

3. What does Friere say the Banking Education needs?

4. What does Paolo Friere mean by critical thinking?

5. What does Friere's problem-solving system promote?

(see the answer key)

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