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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Philosophy?
(a) The study of history.
(b) The study of knowledge.
(c) The study of music.
(d) The study of art.

2. How are the oppressed classes usually stereotyped by their oppressors?
(a) As honest.
(b) As weak.
(c) As lazy and stupid.
(d) As natural leaders.

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

4. How would a teacher teach in Friere's new education system outlined in Part 2?
(a) The teacher would never tell the student the answer.
(b) The student would ask all of the questions.
(c) The teacher would tell the student what to answer.
(d) Both teacher and student would look jointly at a common problem.

5. What is Mr Giddy's view on education?
(a) n is a noble endeavor.
(b) The poor should never be educated.
(c) Education is costly.
(d) The poor should always be educated.

Short Answer Questions

1. What form of education does Friere determine is a contradiction?

2. In what way is pedagogy transmitted to the next generation, according to the author?

3. What, in the author’s estimation, is a critical consciousness?

4. Who in Friere's argument are necrophilous personalities?

5. In what school of thought can the ideas of the book be placed?

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