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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What groups are excluded from any say in the government of the ruling wealthy?
(a) Women and children.
(b) Slaves and women.
(c) The small rural landholder and children.
(d) The small rural landholder and women.

3. There is a shift in agricultural production away from what into the production of olives, figs, fruits, etc.?
(a) Flax production.
(b) Wheat production.
(c) Corn production.
(d) Grain production.

4. What does the slave want?
(a) To be free and an equal member of society.
(b) To be given the necessities of survival.
(c) To be given work.
(d) To be loved.

5. How do these slaves from the mines and those in the urban sector provide for the Athenians?
(a) They protect them from enemies.
(b) They provide food and supplies.
(c) They make medicine for the wealthy Athenians.
(d) They provide the means for the growing Athenian imperialism.

6. Of what is Greek drama full?
(a) Strong women commanding leading roles.
(b) Weak women in small roles.
(c) Strong women in small roles.
(d) Weak women in leading roles.

7. With what is freedom equated?
(a) Indepence and solitude.
(b) Independence and self-sufficiency.
(c) Solitude and self-sufficiency.
(d) Dependency and self-sufficiency.

8. Who destroys the Athenians system of democracy in 322 B.C.?
(a) The Macedonians.
(b) The Turks.
(c) The Persians.
(d) The Mongols.

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

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

11. In what revolution does a large slave population exist to serve the aristocracy and non-farm population?
(a) A social revolution.
(b) An economic revolution.
(c) A political revolution.
(d) A freedom revolution.

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

13. When does the speech take place?
(a) During the last year of the Peloponnesian War.
(b) During the last year of the Persian War.
(c) During the first year of the Peloponnesian War.
(d) During the first year of the 100 Years War.

14. 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 in Greece.
(b) Freedom in Roman culture.
(c) Greek culture and society.
(d) Freedom as a social value.

15. Society's economic infrastructure consists of what, in addition to larger landholder farms?
(a) Exporting of wheat and other produce.
(b) Import of expensive stone and gems.
(c) Import of wheat.
(d) Mining for export and urban crafts.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do societies everywhere regard the inception of freedom as a value?

2. Freedom becomes associated with what in the minds of the populace?

3. By whom is society transformed?

4. What does it mean to be Greek?

5. What is the third revolution, which involves the emergence of democracy?

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