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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which social classes of women are restricted to their houses with very little social life?
(a) Lower and upper class.
(b) Upper and middle class.
(c) All classes.
(d) Middle and lower class.

2. What are palatine centralism, decentralized tribalism, rudimentary state formation and aristocratic resurgence?
(a) Four villages.
(b) Four Grecian rules.
(c) Four designated periods of interest.
(d) Four city-states.

3. When has someone achieved inner freedom?
(a) When an individual becomes educated in freedom.
(b) When an individual dies.
(c) When an individual prays to his or her gods.
(d) When an individual is an independent thinker.

4. The occupation makes the Greeks think about what issues?
(a) Love and compassion.
(b) Equality and justice.
(c) Slavery and freedoms of various kinds.
(d) Understanding and compromise.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The concern with personal freedom basically results from whom?

2. The contemporaneous development of slavery and the concept of freedom characterize what societies?

3. Where are these elements first expressed?

4. Which of the following statements describes the new class that arises?

5. Who either fear being captured and made into slaves, or are already slaves and want release?

Short Essay Questions

1. Explain one of the schools of thought.

2. What are the living conditions of women?

3. The contemporaneous development of slavery and the concept of freedom characterize ancient Athens and Greece. How does Patterson again use Greek drama to support this point?

4. What is slavery? What is a slave-dominated society like?

5. What is a second revolution?

6. Describe one group of intellectuals.

7. Athens experiences three results from the transition to a slave economy. What are these three results?

8. This chapter examines the role of Greece in the historical development of freedom as a social value. What are the four designated periods of interest?

9. What leads to war and the end of Athens' imperialism?

10. How does Patterson view the development of freedom as a social value?

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