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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How are students treated in Banking Education?
(a) As empty vessels fit only to hold the teacher’s wisdom.
(b) As partners.
(c) As opponents.
(d) As already intelligent subjects.

2. Why does Friere think that a specific form of education is a contradiction?
(a) It doesn't teach, it only punishes.
(b) It doesn't teach, it just imparts.
(c) It supports the economy.
(d) It supports the military.

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

4. How does Friere's problem-solving education promote equality?
(a) Students are allowed to speak when spoken to.
(b) Students are paid for their time at school.
(c) It treats the students with respect.
(d) It gives students rights.

5. What future negative aspects does the Banking Education promote, according to Friere?
(a) Banking education teaches violence.
(b) Banking education teaches students to be cruel and tough.
(c) Banking education teaches prejudice.
(d) That a student, worker or citizen only has worth because of their training or job etc.

6. What does Friere mean by 'codifications'?
(a) Secret messages.
(b) Materials to be decoded.
(c) Titles and honors.
(d) Teaching aids.

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

8. Which groups in society does Friere believe that the educator should work with especially?
(a) Those in power.
(b) The poorest members of society.
(c) The middle class.
(d) The richest.

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

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

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

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

13. Does the Subject in Frier's perspective have freewill?
(a) Yes.
(b) Sometimes.
(c) Only to the extent that they can become aware of their situation.
(d) No.

14. Why, according to Friere, do oppressive regimes maintain untested feasibilities?
(a) To make freedom desirable.
(b) To make freedom appear dangerous.
(c) To make freedom sensible.
(d) To make freedom a reality.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Friere mean by ‘Conscientization’?

3. What does Friere say the Banking Education needs?

4. What characterizes an Epochal Unit?

5. Why, according to Friere, does an Untested Feasibility lead to Fear of Freedom?

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