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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Who in Friere's argument are necrophilous personalities?
(a) The Students.
(b) The Oppressed.
(c) The Educators.
(d) The Oppressors.

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

5. Why are power structures necessarily bad, according to Friere?
(a) Because those at the bottom express unthinking loyalty.
(b) Because they always have the weak at the bottom and the strong at the top.
(c) Because they cost a lot to maintain.
(d) Because those at the top always turn into dictators.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does this institution 'teach' oppression?

2. Why is solidarity with the oppressed important, according to Friere?

3. Why does Frier use the example of Mr. Giddy?

4. In Friere's system, what is the educator's relationship to the oppressed?

5. What did the philosopher Plato conceive of education as?

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