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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Eventually, the differing views of freedom lead to what?
(a) Compromise.
(b) Social conflict and upheaval.
(c) Peace.
(d) Understanding.

2. A social reaction between slave, slaveholder and society must take place in order for what to happen?
(a) A person to be enslaved.
(b) Various social classes to exist.
(c) Freedom to develop as a value.
(d) Inequality to exist.

3. By whom is society transformed?
(a) The lower class.
(b) The slaves.
(c) The upper class.
(d) The middle class.

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

5. Athens experiences how many results from the transition to a slave economy?
(a) Three.
(b) Ten.
(c) One.
(d) Eight.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does the slave in this culture have?

2. Did freedom as an idea develop into a value everywhere?

3. What does this chapter examine?

4. In earlier cultures, what was ultimately done with the captive slave?

5. Preoccupation with freedom is predominately a _____________ concept.

(see the answer key)

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