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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The slave is owned by whom?
(a) His father.
(b) Himself.
(c) The slave master.
(d) His king.

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

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

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

5. What is also a factor contributing to the social conflict of this time?
(a) Equality.
(b) Slavery
(c) Freedom.
(d) Education.

Short Answer Questions

1. To what can the development of freedom as a social value be traced?

2. In what revolution does a large slave population exist to serve the aristocracy and non-farm population?

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

4. There is a shift in agricultural production away from what into the production of olives, figs, fruits, etc.?

5. What delineates the fifth revolution of this period?

(see the answer key)

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