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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is a ‘Generative Theme’?
(a) A type of teaching practice.
(b) On having many questions at once.
(c) A theme that is important to a culture.
(d) A theme that is only important to oneself.

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

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

5. How does the educator use Themes and Epochal Units?
(a) He tells the students which one is right or wrong.
(b) He tells the students when to avoid them.
(c) He tries to ignore them.
(d) He recognizes them and encourages students to do the same.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which social institution supports and continues oppression?

2. Does the Subject in Frier's perspective have freewill?

3. Why does Friere believe it is important for an educator to partner with local people?

4. In what ways, according to Friere, does the educator have power over the students’ knowledge?

5. Why does Friere think that a specific form of education is a contradiction?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Friere call his own pedagogy of education?

2. What is a Generative Theme?

3. What role does the educator have in Friere's system of education?

4. What does Friere believe the educator must encourage the Subject to do?

5. What is the Thematic Universe?

6. What is an Epochal Unit?

7. How does Friere's system challenge oppression?

8. Who is the educator working in partnership with?

9. What does Friere call traditional education?

10. How does the educator use the idea of a Thematic Universe?

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