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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who writes the dramas?
(a) Female playwrights.
(b) Male playwrights.
(c) Poor men.
(d) Leaders of the aristocracy.

2. The contemporaneous development of slavery and the concept of freedom characterize what societies?
(a) Ancient Carthage and Rome.
(b) Ancient Rome and Greece.
(c) Modern Athens and Greece.
(d) Ancient Athens and Greece.

3. Did freedom as an idea develop into a value everywhere?
(a) No.
(b) Mostly.
(c) Somewhat.
(d) Yes.

4. This means that there has to be an increase in what?
(a) The slave population.
(b) The number of farms.
(c) The production of grain.
(d) The slave-master population.

5. The concern with personal freedom basically results from whom?
(a) Female landowners of the period.
(b) Female slaves of the period.
(c) Male slaves of the period.
(d) Male landowners of the period.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does this chapter examine?

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

3. How does Greek drama, especially tragedy, credit women?

4. For what do the slaves yearn?

5. What does the slave want?

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