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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. To what does this lead?
(a) The lower and upper class women commiserating and identifying with their children.
(b) All women commiserating and identifying with their friends and relatives.
(c) The upper and middle class women commiserating and identifying with the slaves.
(d) The lower and middle class women commiserating and identifying with slaves.

3. What is the third revolution, which involves the emergence of democracy?
(a) An economic revolution.
(b) A philosophical revolution.
(c) A political revolution.
(d) A social revolution.

4. According to Plato, what is the soul like?
(a) The true person.
(b) A transparent being.
(c) A container of thoughts.
(d) A mini-state in that it contains three parts.

5. 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) Torture.
(b) Manumission.
(c) Inequality.
(d) Efficiency.

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

7. The whole fabric of society exists around and is dependent on what?
(a) Freedom as a social value.
(b) Community solidarity.
(c) The institution of slavery.
(d) Equality.

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

9. Which social classes of women are restricted to their houses with very little social life?
(a) Upper and middle class.
(b) Middle and lower class.
(c) Lower and upper class.
(d) All classes.

10. What does a second factor have to do with, which Patterson sees as "a strategic class error" (p. 65) because it results in a standard against which things can be measured?
(a) The spread of disease.
(b) The spread of literacy and the development of a legal written code.
(c) The spread of legal tender that quickly reveals wealth.
(d) The spread of wealth among this new class.

11. Who are many of the proponents of these schools of thought?
(a) Slaves or former slaves.
(b) The middle class.
(c) The upper class.
(d) The aristocracy.

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

13. What does this chapter examine?
(a) The role of Rome in the historical development of freedom.
(b) The role of Greece in the historical development of freedom as a social value.
(c) The role of Italy in the historical development of freedom.
(d) The role of Crete in the development of freedom.

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

15. What school of thought is one of moral introspection, postulating that the soul is trapped inside the body during life and is freed when the body dies.
(a) Epicureanism
(b) Stoicism.
(c) Cynicism.
(d) The Socratic method.

Short Answer Questions

1. This chapter describes events in the period between the Persian War and the beginning of what?

2. What happens to debtors at this time?

3. What does it mean to be Greek?

4. What must one be to be considered Greek?

5. Who are the only beings that are truly free?

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