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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In this type of freedom, an individual can do what he wants without the constraint of what?
(a) Any choice.
(b) Having to pay for it.
(c) The wishes of others.
(d) His own wishes.

3. What is an outgrowth of Socratic thought in which there is complete personal freedom, both inner and outer?
(a) Epicureanism
(b) Stoicism.
(c) Cynicism
(d) The Socratic method.

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

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

6. On what is there greater reliance to produce the necessary revenues?
(a) The slave-operated grain mills.
(b) The slave-operated silver mines and urban craft industries.
(c) The slave-operated grain fields.
(d) The slave-operated grain fields, mills, and shops.

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

8. By whom is society transformed?
(a) The upper class.
(b) The lower class.
(c) The middle class.
(d) The slaves.

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

10. Upon what form of freedom do intellectuals frown?
(a) The outer or external view.
(b) The rigid view.
(c) The civic view.
(d) The warm view.

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

12. For whom are the plays?
(a) The lower class.
(b) The upper class.
(c) Male audiences.
(d) Female audiences.

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

14. For what do the slaves yearn?
(a) Food and shelter.
(b) Education.
(c) Freedom and escape from bondage.
(d) Love and compassion.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Between what freedoms do they distinguish?

2. How does this chapter examine the role of women in the development of the concept of freedom?

3. What groups are excluded from any say in the government of the ruling wealthy?

4. On what does Patterson draw heavily to make his point?

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

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