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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Why did Mr. Giddy hold his specific view on education?
(a) Because he liked the poor.
(b) Because he thought the poor didn't want to go to school.
(c) Because he thought the poor would become unhappy and unproductive workers.
(d) Because he thought the poor had better things to do than go to school.

3. What symptom makes it obvious to Friere that traditional education is oppressive?
(a) There is still poverty and class divide.
(b) There is still an economic system.
(c) People are still canned at school.
(d) Teachers are given more respect than students.

4. Why, does Friere say, oppression is dehumanizing?
(a) Because the oppressed are not treated as individuals any more.
(b) Because it has to be.
(c) It doesn't mean to be.
(d) Because oppression cannot manage many people at one time.

5. What does the term 'didactic' mean?
(a) Religious.
(b) Dual.
(c) Instructional.
(d) Confrontational.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was Mr. Giddy?

2. What form does his education then take?

3. What issues does Friere believe the educator should be looking at?

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

5. What does Friere think the true goal of education is?

(see the answer key)

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