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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are palatine centralism, decentralized tribalism, rudimentary state formation and aristocratic resurgence?
(a) Four designated periods of interest.
(b) Four villages.
(c) Four city-states.
(d) Four Grecian rules.

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

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

4. 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 cause resentment among the still-oppressed slaves.
(d) They are abused by the aristocracy and the still-oppressed slaves.

5. Which of the following statements describes the new class that arises?
(a) It is more powerful than the aristocracy.
(b) It is dependent on the aristocracy.
(c) It is not dependent on the aristocracy.
(d) It is a new aristocracy.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does the slave in this culture have?

2. Since the slave master's financial welfare depended on the slave, what did he have to do?

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

4. To what preoccupation among citizens does this lead?

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

(see the answer key)

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