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

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

2. Which of the following statements describes the new class that arises?
(a) It is more powerful than the aristocracy.
(b) It is a new aristocracy.
(c) It is dependent on the aristocracy.
(d) It is not dependent on the aristocracy.

3. To what does this expose the Greeks?
(a) The opulent lifestyle of the Franks.
(b) The opulent lifestyle of the Persians.
(c) The opulent lifestyle of the Saxons.
(d) The opulent lifestyle of the Romans.

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

5. These factors lead to the development of what kind of society?
(a) A native slave based society.
(b) No longer a slave based society.
(c) A kingdom with serfs instead of slaves.
(d) A foreign slave based society.

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

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

8. In this chapter, what does Patterson examine?
(a) The view of rigid freedom.
(b) The view of slavery in Roman culture.
(c) The view of outer freedom.
(d) The view of inner freedom.

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

10. At the end of the war in 230 B.C., Athens establishes what, that brings their imperialism to an end?
(a) A kingdom.
(b) A dictatorship.
(c) A monarchy.
(d) A democratic republic.

11. How are the living conditions of many Athenian women?
(a) Rather harsh.
(b) Rather eventful.
(c) Rather lavish.
(d) Rather boring.

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

13. Who does the slave in this culture have?
(a) His mother.
(b) His family.
(c) The slave master.
(d) His friends.

14. What happens to these former slaves that become successful and prosperous?
(a) They miss their old lives.
(b) They are abused by the aristocracy and the still-oppressed slaves.
(c) They become disrespectful and out of control.
(d) They cause resentment among the still-oppressed slaves.

15. Freedom becomes associated with what in the minds of the populace?
(a) Civic freedom.
(b) Pesonal freedom.
(c) Sovereignal freedom.
(d) Victory over the Persians.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who did the women confined to home have for company?

2. How do these slaves from the mines and those in the urban sector provide for the Athenians?

3. Who destroys the Athenians system of democracy in 322 B.C.?

4. Who are the Sophists?

5. Did freedom as an idea develop into a value everywhere?

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