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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens to these former slaves that become successful and prosperous?
(a) They miss their old lives.
(b) They become disrespectful and out of control.
(c) They are abused by the aristocracy and the still-oppressed slaves.
(d) They cause resentment among the still-oppressed slaves.

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

3. Which social classes of women are restricted to their houses with very little social life?
(a) Upper and middle class.
(b) Middle and lower class.
(c) Lower and upper class.
(d) All classes.

4. 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 literacy and the development of a legal written code.
(b) The spread of legal tender that quickly reveals wealth.
(c) The spread of disease.
(d) The spread of wealth among this new class.

5. What is an outgrowth of Socratic thought in which there is complete personal freedom, both inner and outer?
(a) Stoicism.
(b) Cynicism
(c) The Socratic method.
(d) Epicureanism

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why must one be aware of and concerned with the thoughts and opinions of the intellectuals?

3. What would a slave in this culture not have that is necessary to protect and nurture him?

4. Among the Tupinamba, why does the slave exist?

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

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