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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does this chapter examine the role of women in the development of the concept of freedom?

2. Who does the slave in this culture have?

3. How does agricultural production shift?

4. When does the speech take place?

5. What kind of revolution is the fourth revolution, marked by the formation of social and moral sciences based on rationality?

Short Essay Questions

1. What role does slavery play in this conflict?

2. What does the effect of the Peloponnesian War on Athens and Greece affect slavery?

3. What are the schools of thought among Hellenistic thinkers?

4. Why are foreign slaves brought into the country?

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

6. Describe the Oedipus trilogy of Sophocles in relation to freedom.

7. What are the living conditions of women?

8. Given the premise that a social reaction between slave, slaveholder and society must take place in order for freedom to develop as a value, why didn't freedom as a value develop universally?

9. Eventually the differing views of freedom lead to social conflict and upheaval. What causes this?

10. Describe the Imbangala people of Africa, regarding slavery.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Three schools exist among Hellenistic thinkers.

Part 1) Who are Hellenistic thinkers? What are the three schools?

Part 2) How did these schools come about? What is the significance of these three schools?

Part 3) How have these schools been used and altered by various societies after the Hellenistic Period?

Essay Topic 2

Patterson uses Greek tragedy to support several points.

Part 1) What is a Greek tragedy? How does he use this to support several points?

Part 2) How does this metaphor enhance the book for the reader?

Part 3) Must the reader understand Greek tragedies to understand the author's use of them? Explain.

Essay Topic 3

Inner freedom is brought about by Greek religion.

Part 1) What is inner freedom? How is it brought about by Greek religion?

Part 2) Could it be brought about in any other way? Why or why not?

Part 3) How do societies today reveal a desire for inner freedom? What is the connection between the Greeks' belief in inner freedom and ours?

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