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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What sort of education does Friere suggest would be a viable alternative to Banking Education?
(a) A joint problem-solving one.
(b) A religious education.
(c) A military education.
(d) A private education.

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

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

4. 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.

5. What does the term 'didactic' mean?
(a) Religious.
(b) Confrontational.
(c) Instructional.
(d) Dual.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is an ‘Epochal Unit’?

2. Why does Friere use the term 'banking education'?

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

4. In what way is pedagogy transmitted to the next generation, according to the author?

5. What form of education does Friere determine is a contradiction?

(see the answer key)

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