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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens to the wretched who convert?
(a) They must tithe.
(b) They are damned.
(c) They are purified of sin.
(d) They go to hell.

2. Where does slavery exist until 11 A.D. and the on-set of feudalism?
(a) In Germany and Austria.
(b) In France and Italy.
(c) In England and France.
(d) In Sweden and Norway.

3. The practice of manumission and co-optation means the native born Romans, or the ruling class, are what?
(a) Weaker than the slaves.
(b) Numerically now a minority.
(c) Numerically now the majority.
(d) Not as intelligent as the slaves.

4. From what does freedom come?
(a) The life of death.
(b) The death of life.
(c) The end of life.
(d) The death of death.

5. What are slaves seeking and finding in Christianity?
(a) Freedom and escape from bondage.
(b) Love.
(c) Food and shelter.
(d) Family.

6. Augustine expands Paul's view and tries to incorporate what conception of freedom and God?
(a) The Metropolitan conception.
(b) The Neopolitan conception.
(c) The Neoplatonic conception.
(d) The Napoleonic conception.

7. Augustine, like Paul, is also concerned with the role of _______________ in Christianity.
(a) Slavery.
(b) Compromise.
(c) Freedom.
(d) Peace.

8. As what do his views become known?
(a) The theology of freedom.
(b) The theology of Christianity.
(c) The theology of monotheism.
(d) The theology of Christ.

9. Who represents Reactionary Stoicism?
(a) Carl.
(b) Cato.
(c) Caitlin.
(d) Charlemagne.

10. What do Jesus' followers turn into an act of glorification and propaganda?
(a) The scandal of the cross.
(b) The reason for the season.
(c) The dying of God.
(d) The saving of man.

11. Most of the freedom granted is to whom?
(a) Villages.
(b) Families.
(c) Communities or groups of guilds.
(d) Individuals.

12. Why does Augustine view personal freedom as a form of emptiness that doesn't result in inner peace?
(a) It does not benefit him.
(b) It is selfish.
(c) It does not help others.
(d) It does not result in reconciliation.

13. Augustus uses his sovereignal power for the______ of the populace.
(a) Poor.
(b) Good.
(c) No member.
(d) Wealthy.

14. By what is slavery somewhat undermined in late 7 A.D.?
(a) Mass conversion to Christianity.
(b) Mass conversion to Islam.
(c) Mass conversion to Judaism.
(d) Mass conversion to Buddhism.

15. Of whom does the majority of the population consist?
(a) Italians.
(b) Aliens.
(c) Native Romans.
(d) Grecians.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the Christian religion offer to the weaker elements of Hellenistic society?

2. How does Patterson describe the elements of slavery?

3. Why does Reactionary Stoicism appeal to the Roman upper classes?

4. Who has the most freedom in terms of the sovereignal aspect of freedom?

5. In what do plebeians have more faith?

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