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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do societies everywhere regard the inception of freedom as a value?
(a) They resist it.
(b) They are envious of it.
(c) They ignore it.
(d) They encourag it.

2. What does the slave want?
(a) To be free and an equal member of society.
(b) To be loved.
(c) To be given the necessities of survival.
(d) To be given work.

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

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

5. On what is the nineteenth century Imbangala people of Africa's society based?
(a) Intelligence.
(b) Appearance.
(c) Strength.
(d) Lineage.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The social value of freedom exists by the end of what century?

3. On what does Patterson draw heavily to make his point?

4. How are the living conditions of many Athenian women?

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

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