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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. 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.
(a) Epicureanism
(b) The Socratic method.
(c) Cynicism.
(d) Stoicism.

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

6. During the war in the sixth century B.C., Greek cities are occupied by whom?
(a) The Persians.
(b) The Saxons.
(c) The Franks.
(d) The Romans.

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

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

9. How does agricultural production shift?
(a) Somewhat away from grain.
(b) Completely to grain.
(c) Toward grain.
(d) Completely away from grain.

10. What does this chapter examine?
(a) The role of Italy in the historical development of freedom.
(b) The role of Rome in the historical development of freedom.
(c) The role of Greece in the historical development of freedom as a social value.
(d) The role of Crete in the development of freedom.

11. What dictates mortal life?
(a) Decisions made by each individual.
(b) Fate.
(c) Accident.
(d) Evolution.

12. Freedom is relative in that the more freedom one individual has, the ______ freedom another has.
(a) Better.
(b) More.
(c) Same.
(d) Less.

13. What is also a factor contributing to the social conflict of this time?
(a) Slavery
(b) Equality.
(c) Freedom.
(d) Education.

14. According to Patterson, what are the three components of freedom?
(a) Individual, unique, and social.
(b) Formal, informal, and community.
(c) Ruler, kingdom, and peasant.
(d) Personal, sovereignal, and civic.

15. How does Greek society hold women?
(a) Not very highly.
(b) Very highly.
(c) Not at all.
(d) Somewhat highly.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. This chapter describes events in the period between the Persian War and the beginning of what?

3. What kind of revolution is the fourth revolution, marked by the formation of social and moral sciences based on rationality?

4. What kind of freedom is this, on a national level?

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

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