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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 16.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. On what is there greater reliance to produce the necessary revenues?
(a) The slave-operated grain fields, mills, and shops.
(b) The slave-operated grain mills.
(c) The slave-operated grain fields.
(d) The slave-operated silver mines and urban craft industries.

2. A social reaction between slave, slaveholder and society must take place in order for what to happen?
(a) Various social classes to exist.
(b) Inequality to exist.
(c) A person to be enslaved.
(d) Freedom to develop as a value.

3. He extols the virtue of the ruler as what for the populace?
(a) A strong hand and firm master.
(b) A provider and protector.
(c) A wife.
(d) A god.

4. The imperialistic quest of the Athenians is now directed at whom?
(a) Rome.
(b) Other Greek city-states.
(c) Other European nations.
(d) Italy.

5. For whom are the plays?
(a) Male audiences.
(b) The lower class.
(c) The upper class.
(d) Female audiences.

Short Answer Questions

1. How is Rome similar to Greece?

2. How do the plebeians view the civic freedom of the upper class?

3. Greek drama represents what?

4. What are the three elements of freedom called?

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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