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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Paolo Friere mean by critical thinking?
(a) The ability to study philosophy.
(b) The ability to discern good from bad.
(c) The ability to question things.
(d) The ability to be overly critical and negative.

2. Why do traditional modes of teaching interfere with the development of a Subject, according to Friere?
(a) Because the subject has to spend money to go to school.
(b) Because the Subject gets taught lessons they are not interested in.
(c) Because a person has to either be in the right or wrong and, therefore, is not their own Subject.
(d) Because the subject has to spend their time going to school.

3. What is an Authority figure?
(a) Someone who has power over those below them.
(b) Someone we look up to.
(c) Someone we should look up to.
(d) Someone we always look up to.

4. 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) The instilling of a moral code into a student.
(d) Of telling the student what to think and what not to think.

5. What is a revolutionary?
(a) One who disagrees with anything told to them.
(b) Someone who agrees with their rulers.
(c) One who wants a complete change in the structure and order of society.
(d) One who seeks to destroy society.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. How are the oppressed classes usually stereotyped by their oppressors?

4. What is a poverty of the mind in this context?

5. Who was Paulo Friere?

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