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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What kind of revolution is the fourth revolution, marked by the formation of social and moral sciences based on rationality?
(a) A social and philosophical revolution.
(b) A political revolution.
(c) An economic revolution.
(d) A freedom revolution.

4. In this type of freedom, an individual can do what he wants without the constraint of what?
(a) The wishes of others.
(b) Having to pay for it.
(c) His own wishes.
(d) Any choice.

5. What delineates the fifth revolution of this period?
(a) Concern with social freedom.
(b) Concern with economic freedom.
(c) Concern with freedom as a value.
(d) Concern with political freedom.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is an example of a social reform for the abolishment of debt, debt bondage and enslavement for debt?

2. Who either fear being captured and made into slaves, or are already slaves and want release?

3. 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?

4. What are palatine centralism, decentralized tribalism, rudimentary state formation and aristocratic resurgence?

5. According to Patterson, what are the three components of freedom?

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