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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who was Paulo Friere?
(a) A Russian revolutionary.
(b) A British subvert.
(c) A Brazilian teacher, socialist and educator.
(d) An American academic.

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

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

4. What is the job of the Preface?
(a) To tell the readers what they should know.
(b) To warn readers.
(c) To act as a government health warning.
(d) To inform the reader of the later ideas of the book.

5. Who is the author of this book?
(a) Paulo Friere.
(b) Karl Marx.
(c) Erich Fromm.
(d) Lenin.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following is a form of Limit Act?

2. What is the traditional power structure between teacher and students?

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

4. What is the goal of critical consciousness?

5. What sort of education does Friere suggest would be a viable alternative to Banking Education?

(see the answer key)

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