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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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.

3. Who either fear being captured and made into slaves, or are already slaves and want release?
(a) Children.
(b) Women.
(c) Men.
(d) Non-Greeks.

4. Three schools of thought exist among what thinkers?
(a) Pantheon.
(b) Hellenism.
(c) Panhellenic.
(d) Hellenic.

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

6. How does Greek drama, especially tragedy, credit women?
(a) With being responsible for building up the Greek population.
(b) With being responsible for developing the social consciousness of concern for personal freedom and independence.
(c) With being responsible for feeding the Greek population.
(d) With being responsible for guiding their men along the correct path.

7. The financial welfare of the slaveholder is now becoming dependent on what?
(a) The intelligence of the slave.
(b) The physical attributes of the slave.
(c) The productivity of the slave.
(d) The social class of the slave.

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

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

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

11. On what is Athens now completely dependent?
(a) Grain imports.
(b) Grain-based economies.
(c) Grain exports.
(d) Food made from grain.

12. Between what freedoms do they distinguish?
(a) Outer and inner.
(b) Smooth and rigid.
(c) Personal and civic.
(d) Warm and cool.

13. Eventually, the differing views of freedom lead to what?
(a) Compromise.
(b) Understanding.
(c) Peace.
(d) Social conflict and upheaval.

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

15. Who did the women confined to home have for company?
(a) Slaves.
(b) Their children.
(c) Friends.
(d) Relatives.

Short Answer Questions

1. Among the Tupinamba, why does the slave exist?

2. Again what does Patterson use to support this point?

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

4. Preoccupation with freedom is predominately a _____________ concept.

5. What are palatine centralism, decentralized tribalism, rudimentary state formation and aristocratic resurgence?

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