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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Friere mean by ‘Conscientization’?
(a) Spreading the good news about liberty.
(b) An awareness of someone else's situation.
(c) A conscious awareness of one's own situation.
(d) Not reacting violently.

2. What is an ‘Untested Feasibility’?
(a) A situation that denies the laws of gravity.
(b) An impossible situation.
(c) A situation outside of your Limit Situation.
(d) A situation outside of your theme.

3. What does Friere write is the role of the teacher in traditional education?
(a) To ignore the students.
(b) To give the students better job chances.
(c) To be an authoritarian figure.
(d) To help students.

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

5. Which of the following is a form of Limit Act?
(a) Being told what to do by a leader.
(b) Holding yourself back from what you want in life.
(c) Choosing any job you want.
(d) Having to take a job you don't like because of poverty.

6. What is one goal of the Problem-Posing Education?
(a) To get a good job.
(b) To get a good school reputation.
(c) To get good grades.
(d) It teaches Subjects the real cause of their oppression.

7. What characterizes an Epochal Unit?
(a) A collection of certain themes.
(b) Fossilization.
(c) A lack of themes.
(d) Marxism.

8. What does Friere think is the difference between humans and other animals?
(a) How we grow up.
(b) Humans can see outside of their situation.
(c) How we treat each other.
(d) How we get our food.

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

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

11. What does 'exclusive education' mean?
(a) Nobody gets a free education.
(b) Only certain members and their families are educated.
(c) Only the poorest are educated.
(d) Only certain members of society are educated.

12. What does 'inclusive education' mean?
(a) Some members of society are allowed to be educated.
(b) Most of society is allowed to be educated.
(c) All members of society should be allowed to be educated.
(d) No members of society are allowed to be educated.

13. What is a ‘Limit Situation’?
(a) A Situation where the Subject has to confront their emotions.
(b) A situation that frees the Subject.
(c) A situation that holds back the Subject.
(d) A situation with no themes involved.

14. How should didactic material be used, according to Friere?
(a) To make sure the student doesn't get it wrong.
(b) To encourage the student to ask questions about their own situation.
(c) To entertain the students.
(d) To assess whether the student is right or wrong.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What issues does Friere believe the educator should be looking at?

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

3. What is a ‘Limit Act’?

4. What does the term 'didactic' mean?

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

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