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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who was Paulo Friere?
(a) A British subvert.
(b) An American academic.
(c) A Russian revolutionary.
(d) A Brazilian teacher, socialist and educator.

2. What, in the author’s estimation, is a critical consciousness?
(a) A very important individual.
(b) The ability to question everything rationally.
(c) A form of mental illness.
(d) A mind that never questions anything.

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

4. What does Friere state unapologetically that his position is?
(a) Republican.
(b) Revolutionary.
(c) Fascism.
(d) Reactionary.

5. In what ways, according to Friere, does the educator have power over the students’ knowledge?
(a) The educator knows which answer is right and wrong.
(b) Only the educator can write on the blackboard.
(c) The educator gives out gold stars to good students.
(d) The educator knows where the textbooks are kept.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is phenomenology?

2. What does Friere say the Banking Education needs?

3. Does one have to live in a tyrannical state to be oppressed?

4. What does it mean to be an actualized or fully humanized human being, according to Friere?

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

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