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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. There is a shift in agricultural production away from what into the production of olives, figs, fruits, etc.?
(a) Wheat production.
(b) Flax production.
(c) Corn production.
(d) Grain production.

2. Personal freedom awareness results from the role of what Greeks?
(a) Men.
(b) Slaves.
(c) Non-natives.
(d) Women.

3. What kind of freedom is this, on a national level?
(a) Sovereignal.
(b) Personal.
(c) Community.
(d) Civic.

4. Each of the three is concerned with what issue?
(a) Compassion and compromise.
(b) The slavery-freedom issue.
(c) Death and dying.
(d) The afterlife.

5. The whole fabric of society exists around and is dependent on what?
(a) Community solidarity.
(b) Equality.
(c) Freedom as a social value.
(d) The institution of slavery.

6. According to Patterson, what are the three components of freedom?
(a) Ruler, kingdom, and peasant.
(b) Individual, unique, and social.
(c) Personal, sovereignal, and civic.
(d) Formal, informal, and community.

7. What does this chapter examine?
(a) The role of Greece in the historical development of freedom as a social value.
(b) The role of Crete in the development of freedom.
(c) The role of Rome in the historical development of freedom.
(d) The role of Italy in the historical development of freedom.

8. What is an example of a social reform for the abolishment of debt, debt bondage and enslavement for debt?
(a) Solomon's seisochtheia.
(b) Solomon's seize.
(c) Solon's seize.
(d) Solon's seisochtheia.

9. Upon what form of freedom do intellectuals frown?
(a) The warm view.
(b) The rigid view.
(c) The outer or external view.
(d) The civic view.

10. What is also a factor contributing to the social conflict of this time?
(a) Equality.
(b) Education.
(c) Freedom.
(d) Slavery

11. Who are the only beings that are truly free?
(a) The gods.
(b) Slaves.
(c) Women.
(d) Men.

12. On what does Patterson draw heavily to make his point?
(a) Roman plays.
(b) Greek drama.
(c) French operas.
(d) German symphonies.

13. Who either fear being captured and made into slaves, or are already slaves and want release?
(a) Children.
(b) Non-Greeks.
(c) Men.
(d) Women.

14. In earlier cultures, what was ultimately done with the captive slave?
(a) He or she was eaten.
(b) He or she was freed.
(c) He or she was given away as a gift.
(d) He or she was sold.

15. For what do the slaves yearn?
(a) Love and compassion.
(b) Education.
(c) Freedom and escape from bondage.
(d) Food and shelter.

Short Answer Questions

1. _________________ freedom more or less defines the slave-slave master relationship.

2. Which social classes of women are restricted to their houses with very little social life?

3. What dictates mortal life?

4. Which of Aeschylus' plays does he cite?

5. At the end of the war in 230 B.C., Athens establishes what, that brings their imperialism to an end?

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