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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Friere say the Banking Education needs?
(a) Exams and grades to rate each students understanding of 'The' knowledge.
(b) Structors to enforce their will.
(c) Tools to punish students.
(d) Students.

2. Why does Friere believe it is important for an educator to partner with local people?
(a) Because they can spread their costs on society.
(b) Because the oppressed will be able to judge the educator better.
(c) Because they can be helped out of their oppression.
(d) Because the educator can understand the oppressed people better.

3. What is the traditional power structure between teacher and students?
(a) Neither teacher or student have power.
(b) The teacher has power while the student has none.
(c) The teacher has no power and the student has it all.
(d) Both teacher and student have power.

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

5. How does this institution 'teach' oppression?
(a) There are political posters on the walls.
(b) It uses tools of oppression such as caning.
(c) It creates an internal 'culture of oppression' in the minds of the student.
(d) It enforces uniforms.

6. What is a ‘Thematic Universe’?
(a) Issues or problems that are important to a Subject.
(b) Issues that most people overlook.
(c) A type of book.
(d) Issues important to the whole world.

7. Why, according to Friere, does an Untested Feasibility lead to Fear of Freedom?
(a) Because they are always dangerous.
(b) Because it is also an unknown.
(c) Because you have no control.
(d) Because there is always something at risk.

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

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

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

11. What is 'didactic material?'
(a) Materials such as media, articles and pictures that encourage debate.
(b) Material that is exceedingly provoking.
(c) Material that is offensive.
(d) Religious material.

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

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

14. Why does Friere disagree with Banking Education?
(a) Because it disregards to students entirely.
(b) Because he dislikes students.
(c) Because he dislikes teachers.
(d) Because it gives the students too much power.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Bode discuss about students that he observed?

2. Why do traditional modes of teaching interfere with the development of a Subject, according to Friere?

3. What characterizes an Untested Feasibility?

4. How does Friere use the term ‘contradiction’?

5. Which of the following is a form of Limit Act?

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