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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who will become freed when the Oppressed rise up?
(a) Only the very poorest.
(b) Both Oppressed and the Oppressors.
(c) The Oppressors.
(d) The Oppressed.

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

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

4. Why did Mr. Giddy hold his specific view on education?
(a) Because he thought the poor didn't want to go to school.
(b) Because he thought the poor had better things to do than go to school.
(c) Because he liked the poor.
(d) Because he thought the poor would become unhappy and unproductive workers.

5. Which of the below is cultural manipulation?
(a) No one else can tell you what your happiness entails.
(b) 'Happiness' entails monetary wealth as well as emotional satisfaction
(c) Happiness is a purely subjective state.
(d) Follow your dreams.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the author of this book?

2. Who was Mr. Giddy?

3. In Friere's system, what is the educator's relationship to the oppressed?

4. What does the author mean by the fear of freedom?

5. How important is critical thinking to Friere?

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