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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How would a teacher teach in Friere's new education system outlined in Part 2?
(a) The student would ask all of the questions.
(b) The teacher would never tell the student the answer.
(c) The teacher would tell the student what to answer.
(d) Both teacher and student would look jointly at a common problem.

2. Why does Friere use the term 'banking education'?
(a) Because the education system is similar to the banking system.
(b) Because schools in oppressive countries are run by banks.
(c) Because schools need money.
(d) Because schools have too much money.

3. How does Friere use the term ‘Subject’ in his book?
(a) To denote a person who is in charge of others.
(b) To denote a class of society.
(c) To denote a person who is fully aware and able to act freely.
(d) To denote a class of study.

4. What does Friere's problem-solving system promote?
(a) Discorded thinking.
(b) Free thought.
(c) Knowledge of right from wrong.
(d) Correct thinking.

5. What form does his education then take?
(a) Must be privately funded.
(b) Tailored to each school.
(c) Given to the whole class.
(d) Tailored to each class and individual.

6. What did Bode discuss about students that he observed?
(a) That they were necessarily interested in themselves and their situation unless they can link it to something else.
(b) They were interested in everything he had to say.
(c) They were revolutionary.
(d) They were bored most of the time.

7. How must the problem in Friere's system be presented to the student?
(a) The problem must be given to the student by the teacher.
(b) The problem must be chosen by the student.
(c) The problem must be related to their lives in some way.
(d) The problem must be unrelated to the student’s personal experience.

8. What is the teacher’s role in the problem-solving education?
(a) A judge.
(b) The decider of right from wrong.
(c) They do not have a role.
(d) A facilitator of a dialogue.

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

10. In his teaching of opposed dualisms, what philosopher is Frier referencing?
(a) Kant.
(b) Hegel.
(c) Descartes.
(d) Nietzsche.

11. Who was Gabriel Bode?
(a) A Chilean educator.
(b) A Russian Marxist.
(c) A Chilean dictator.
(d) A Brazilian teacher.

12. How did Bode use images to teach students?
(a) By relating one image to another, he encouraged students to link ideas.
(b) He never used images in the classroom.
(c) He never used words in the classroom.
(d) He asked students to name the images they saw.

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

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

15. What is the duality of the thematic universe?
(a) Left or right.
(b) Right or wrong.
(c) Good or evil.
(d) Every theme has its opposite acting in conflict at the same time.

Short Answer Questions

1. How are students treated in Banking Education?

2. What is a ‘Generative Theme’?

3. In what sort of society do we find a Limit Situation?

4. What psychological term does Friere use for the teacher-student type of relationship?

5. What is one goal of the Problem-Posing Education?

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