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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who destroys the Athenians system of democracy in 322 B.C.?
(a) The Turks.
(b) The Persians.
(c) The Macedonians.
(d) The Mongols.

2. In what revolution does the slaveholder become economically dependent on the slave for his own financial well-being?
(a) The political revolution.
(b) The social revolution.
(c) The freedom revolution.
(d) The economic revolution.

3. What does a second factor have to do with, which Patterson sees as "a strategic class error" (p. 65) because it results in a standard against which things can be measured?
(a) The spread of wealth among this new class.
(b) The spread of literacy and the development of a legal written code.
(c) The spread of disease.
(d) The spread of legal tender that quickly reveals wealth.

4. To what does this lead?
(a) The lower and middle class women commiserating and identifying with slaves.
(b) The lower and upper class women commiserating and identifying with their children.
(c) All women commiserating and identifying with their friends and relatives.
(d) The upper and middle class women commiserating and identifying with the slaves.

5. When does the speech take place?
(a) During the last year of the Persian War.
(b) During the first year of the 100 Years War.
(c) During the last year of the Peloponnesian War.
(d) During the first year of the Peloponnesian War.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what revolution does a large slave population exist to serve the aristocracy and non-farm population?

2. What is also a factor contributing to the social conflict of this time?

3. What are palatine centralism, decentralized tribalism, rudimentary state formation and aristocratic resurgence?

4. What happens to these former slaves that become successful and prosperous?

5. Eventually, the differing views of freedom lead to what?

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