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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 20.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Reactionary Stoicism appeal to the Roman upper classes?
(a) It is based on wealth.
(b) It is based on social status.
(c) It is based on reason.
(d) It is based on faith.

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

3. Who did the women confined to home have for company?
(a) Friends.
(b) Relatives.
(c) Their children.
(d) Slaves.

4. With whom do the patricians conflict?
(a) The pueblos.
(b) The euclids.
(c) The metics.
(d) The plebeians.

5. What does the Christian religion offer to the weaker elements of Hellenistic society?
(a) Hope.
(b) Love.
(c) Wealth.
(d) Fear.

Short Answer Questions

1. Patterson states that he does not mean for his book to be a study of the intellectual study of freedom, but the historical development of what?

2. Who does this economically benefit?

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

4. The upper class young men of the time are educated in Stoicism and despise who?

5. What parts of the Roman economy are slave-based?

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