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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. _________________ freedom more or less defines the slave-slave master relationship.
(a) Sovereignal.
(b) Personal.
(c) Civic.
(d) Community.

3. What does the external response reveal about intellectuals?
(a) The opinions of the intellectuals on what is best for society.
(b) The opinions of the intellectuals on what they see happen in their society.
(c) What annoys the intellectuals about society.
(d) The opinions of the intellectuals on what they would like to see in society.

4. When has someone achieved inner freedom?
(a) When an individual becomes educated in freedom.
(b) When an individual dies.
(c) When an individual prays to his or her gods.
(d) When an individual is an independent thinker.

5. What is not entirely correct regarding freedom and slavery?
(a) Defining them purely in terms of legal status.
(b) Defining them purely in terms of social status.
(c) Defining them purely in terms of personal status.
(d) Defining them without terms of legal status.

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

7. In the days of ancient Carthage, the slave develops what kind of value?
(a) Economic.
(b) Equal.
(c) Social.
(d) Human.

8. What would a slave in this culture not have that is necessary to protect and nurture him?
(a) A slave master.
(b) Food and shelter.
(c) The family and friendship structure.
(d) Rules.

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

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

11. Among the Tupinamba, why does the slave exist?
(a) To be a family member for the slave master.
(b) For the honor and dignity of the slave master.
(c) To provide an income for the slave master.
(d) For protecting the slave master's family.

12. 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?
(a) Efficiency.
(b) Manumission.
(c) Inequality.
(d) Torture.

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

14. What kind of freedom is this, on a national level?
(a) Personal.
(b) Community.
(c) Sovereignal.
(d) Civic.

15. Again what does Patterson use to support this point?
(a) Greek drama.
(b) Roman plays.
(c) French operas.
(d) German symphonies.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. In what revolution does the slaveholder become economically dependent on the slave for his own financial well-being?

3. What does the slave want?

4. Upon what form of freedom do intellectuals frown?

5. What is an outgrowth of Socratic thought in which there is complete personal freedom, both inner and outer?

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