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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 13.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The practice of manumission and co-optation means the native born Romans, or the ruling class, are what?
(a) Numerically now the majority.
(b) Not as intelligent as the slaves.
(c) Numerically now a minority.
(d) Weaker than the slaves.

2. The contemporaneous development of slavery and the concept of freedom characterize what societies?
(a) Ancient Carthage and Rome.
(b) Ancient Athens and Greece.
(c) Ancient Rome and Greece.
(d) Modern Athens and Greece.

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

4. How do these slaves from the mines and those in the urban sector provide for the Athenians?
(a) They provide the means for the growing Athenian imperialism.
(b) They provide food and supplies.
(c) They protect them from enemies.
(d) They make medicine for the wealthy Athenians.

5. The concern with personal freedom basically results from whom?
(a) Male landowners of the period.
(b) Female slaves of the period.
(c) Male slaves of the period.
(d) Female landowners of the period.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is an outgrowth of Socratic thought in which there is complete personal freedom, both inner and outer?

2. On what is Athens now completely dependent?

3. How does the ruling class find the majority of the population becoming?

4. Society's economic infrastructure consists of what, in addition to larger landholder farms?

5. Who does this economically benefit?

(see the answer key)

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