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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. For what do the slaves yearn?
(a) Food and shelter.
(b) Love and compassion.
(c) Education.
(d) Freedom and escape from bondage.

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

3. To what preoccupation among citizens does this lead?
(a) Regarding the purchasing of slaves.
(b) Regarding manual labor and working for others.
(c) Regarding landownership.
(d) Regarding the work of slaves.

4. What happens to debtors at this time?
(a) They are exiled.
(b) They are hanged.
(c) They are protected.
(d) They are sold into slavery.

5. Which social classes of women are restricted to their houses with very little social life?
(a) Middle and lower class.
(b) All classes.
(c) Upper and middle class.
(d) Lower and upper class.

6. The occupation makes the Greeks think about what issues?
(a) Equality and justice.
(b) Love and compassion.
(c) Slavery and freedoms of various kinds.
(d) Understanding and compromise.

7. Preoccupation with freedom is predominately a _____________ concept.
(a) Western.
(b) Northern.
(c) Eastern.
(d) Southern.

8. This chapter describes events in the period between the Persian War and the beginning of what?
(a) The 100 Years War.
(b) The Peloponnesian War.
(c) The Renaissance.
(d) The Middle Ages.

9. Patterson states that he does not mean for his book to be a study of the intellectual study of freedom, but the historical development of what?
(a) Freedom as a social value.
(b) Freedom as a social value in Greece.
(c) Freedom in Roman culture.
(d) Greek culture and society.

10. Which women had more activities outside the home?
(a) The lower down the women are on the social ladder.
(b) Those women in the middle of the social ladder.
(c) The higher up the women are on the social ladder.
(d) Any woman on the social ladder.

11. By whom is society transformed?
(a) The lower class.
(b) The slaves.
(c) The middle class.
(d) The upper class.

12. Slavery is more than just what kind of problem?
(a) In sovereignal status.
(b) In personal status.
(c) In social status.
(d) In legal status.

13. The third component is the ________ component, where individuals have the freedom to participate in the community and its governance, with their rights and obligations defined.
(a) Community.
(b) Personal.
(c) Sovereignal.
(d) Civic.

14. In earlier cultures, what was ultimately done with the captive slave?
(a) He or she was sold.
(b) He or she was eaten.
(c) He or she was given away as a gift.
(d) He or she was freed.

15. The years of the Peloponnesian War bring what to Athens and Greece?
(a) Only war.
(b) Sadness.
(c) Nothing.
(d) Changes.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who writes the dramas?

2. What school of thought is one of moral introspection, postulating that the soul is trapped inside the body during life and is freed when the body dies.

3. In order to foster productivity, there is also an accompanying increase in what, since this is the only way the society can attain the output it needs to survive?

4. What dictates mortal life?

5. Who are many of the proponents of these schools of thought?

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