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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Friere use the term ‘contradiction’?
(a) To refer to the oppressed.
(b) To mean a lie that is presented as a truth.
(c) As a truth that does not apply in every situation.
(d) As a situation which runs counter to healthy human development.

2. What is an a-priori truth?
(a) A fraudulent truth.
(b) A fundamentally correct and undeniable truth.
(c) A truth that is hidden an very few people know.
(d) A truth that everyone knows.

3. What form of education does Friere determine is a contradiction?
(a) The Private Education.
(b) The banking-education system.
(c) The Religious Education.
(d) The Scientific Education.

4. Why do we need to become humanized, according to Friere?
(a) Because humanization will make us fitter.
(b) Because humanization will make us richer.
(c) Because humanization is a symptom of healthy psychological development.
(d) Because humanization will make us more friends.

5. What does critical thinking help to analyzes, according to Friere?
(a) The Oppressed.
(b) The Oppressors.
(c) The material reality, living conditions, and 'real' situation around the oppressed' lives.
(d) Philosophers.

Short Answer Questions

1. How are students treated in Banking Education?

2. What symptom makes it obvious to Friere that traditional education is oppressive?

3. When was this book written?

4. What does it mean to be one of the oppressed?

5. Does one have to live in a tyrannical state to be oppressed?

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