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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. 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.

2. In Friere's system, what is the educator's relationship to the oppressed?
(a) Friendliness.
(b) Familiarity.
(c) Related.
(d) One of solidarity with them.

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

4. 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 unrelated to the student’s personal experience.
(c) The problem must be chosen by the student.
(d) The problem must be related to their lives in some way.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is 'didactic material?'

2. What does Friere mean by ‘Conscientization’?

3. Why, according to Friere, do oppressive regimes maintain untested feasibilities?

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

5. How does Friere use the term ‘Subject’ in his book?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Friere believe it is important to ally oneself with the poor?

2. What does Friere call traditional education?

3. Why does Friere see traditional education similar to an economic system?

4. How does Friere's system challenge oppression?

5. What are some of the hallmarks of oppressive education?

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

7. What is an Untested Feasibility?

8. What is a Subject in Friere’s analysis?

9. What is the Thematic Universe?

10. What is an Epochal Unit?

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