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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. What do his ideas provide?

2. What is the role of Jesus?

3. What does Augustine basically end up doing to the role of personal freedom?

4. According to Augustine, from where does freedom come?

5. How is the crucifixion of Jesus referred?

Short Essay Questions

1. How have women's lives begun to change?

2. Why does the populace accept Augustus?

3. Rome extends its power and rule to the Italian peninsula through a series of wars and conquests in 266 B.C. What are the consequences?

4. What is the purpose of this chapter?

5. Describe the Roman economy and society.

6. What are the consequences of Jesus' crucifixion?

7. Why have historians tended to downplay the role of freedom during this time period?

8. Where are Paul's large conversion rates located?

9. What is Reformist Stoicism?

10. In trying to define the relationship between church and state, four interpretations are proposed by Patterson. What are these interpretations?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

As Europe emerges from the Middle Ages, there are similarities and, yet, conflicts between church and state.

Part 1) What are the similarities bet church and state? Why are the church and state in conflict?

Part 2) How is this conflict settled? How effective is this? Explain.

Part 3) How has conflict continued into modern times? How is this conflict handled today? Why is it handled this way?

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

The living conditions of many Athenian women are harsh.

Part 1) Describe these living conditions. Why are they harsh?

Part 2) What is the connection between their conditions and slavery?

Part 3) What is surprising about the women who have the harshest of living conditions? Why this surprising?

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