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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of Aeschylus' plays does he cite?
(a) The Romans and the Goddess Juno.
(b) The Saxons and the Handsome Midwife.
(c) The Persians and The Suppliant Maidens.
(d) The Franks and the Beautiful Woman.

2. To what does this lead?
(a) The upper and middle class women commiserating and identifying with the slaves.
(b) The lower and middle class women commiserating and identifying with slaves.
(c) The lower and upper class women commiserating and identifying with their children.
(d) All women commiserating and identifying with their friends and relatives.

3. Between what freedoms do they distinguish?
(a) Outer and inner.
(b) Personal and civic.
(c) Warm and cool.
(d) Smooth and rigid.

4. Which of the following statements describes the new class that arises?
(a) It is a new aristocracy.
(b) It is dependent on the aristocracy.
(c) It is more powerful than the aristocracy.
(d) It is not dependent on the aristocracy.

5. How does this chapter examine the role of women in the development of the concept of freedom?
(a) Using Roman plays.
(b) Using Greek tragedy.
(c) Using French operas.
(d) Using German symphonies.

Short Answer Questions

1. In this chapter, what does Patterson examine?

2. This means that there has to be an increase in what?

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

4. Who writes the dramas?

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?

(see the answer key)

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