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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why is freedom not practical for a slave during this period?
(a) He is not intelligent.
(b) The slave master would not have an adequate amount of workers.
(c) He would have family with which to stay.
(d) He does not have a place to go.

2. 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 disease.
(c) The spread of wealth among this new class.
(d) The spread of legal tender that quickly reveals wealth.

3. To what can the development of freedom as a social value be traced?
(a) Five revolutions that occurred in Athens between 7 and 4 B.C.
(b) Five revolutions that occurred in Rome between 4 and 7 A.D.
(c) Five revolutions that occurred in Athens between 4 and 7 A.D.
(d) Five revolutions that occurred in Rome between 7 and 4 B.C.

4. What is not entirely correct regarding freedom and slavery?
(a) Defining them purely in terms of legal status.
(b) Defining them without terms of legal status.
(c) Defining them purely in terms of social status.
(d) Defining them purely in terms of personal status.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What delineates the fifth revolution of this period?

2. By whom is society transformed?

3. How do societies everywhere regard the inception of freedom as a value?

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

5. In this type of freedom, an individual can do what he wants without the constraint of what?

(see the answer key)

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