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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the days of ancient Carthage, the slave develops what kind of value?
(a) Social.
(b) Human.
(c) Equal.
(d) Economic.

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

3. There is a shift in agricultural production away from what into the production of olives, figs, fruits, etc.?
(a) Wheat production.
(b) Flax production.
(c) Corn production.
(d) Grain production.

4. The financial welfare of the slaveholder is now becoming dependent on what?
(a) The physical attributes of the slave.
(b) The productivity of the slave.
(c) The social class of the slave.
(d) The intelligence of the slave.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does this chapter examine?

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

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

4. What would a slave in this culture not have that is necessary to protect and nurture him?

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

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