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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the Middle Ages, what renews the interest in the quest for freedom?
(a) The compassion of the king.
(b) The freedom of serfdom.
(c) The end of slavery.
(d) The oppression of serfdom.

2. The second conflict takes place between 340-266 A.D., resulting in what?
(a) Rome growing and expanding to become Greece.
(b) Rome shrinking and consolidating.
(c) Rome being taken over by the Greeks.
(d) Rome growing and expanding to become Italy.

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

4. What is one of the phases?
(a) The prophetic phase of Jesus and the Jesus movement.
(b) The birth of Jesus.
(c) The Crucifixion.
(d) The baptism of John.

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

6. Augustus set the pace for the interpretations of freedom that will define the European chordal triad for how long?
(a) The next fifteen hundred years.
(b) The next five hundred years.
(c) The next fifteen years.
(d) The next fifty years.

7. According to Paul, from what are we saved?
(a) Death.
(b) Other gods.
(c) Satan.
(d) The spiritual slavery of sin.

8. Law and the state of grace are _________.
(a) Opposites.
(b) Related.
(c) The same.
(d) Similar.

9. What does the Christian religion offer to the weaker elements of Hellenistic society?
(a) Fear.
(b) Wealth.
(c) Hope.
(d) Love.

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

11. How do many of the serfs and peasants receive rights?
(a) By bribery and blackmail.
(b) By begging for them.
(c) By paying monetarily for some of them.
(d) By hard work.

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

13. Why does Reactionary Stoicism appeal to the Roman upper classes?
(a) It is based on wealth.
(b) It is based on reason.
(c) It is based on faith.
(d) It is based on social status.

14. What is sin considered to be?
(a) Something from which only slaves suffer.
(b) An influence of Satan.
(c) A form of spiritual slavery that humans are freed from.
(d) From Adam and Eve.

15. How do the plebeians view the civic freedom of the upper class?
(a) As a threat to their own personal freedom.
(b) As a form of personal freedom.
(c) As a good compromise to their personal freedom.
(d) As something to desire.

Short Answer Questions

1. How is the cult of Christianity similar to other cults of the time?

2. Augustus' rule is at the expense of whose civic freedom?

3. What is one of the different periods of serfdom?

4. How does Augustus change his image and his manner of rule during his reign?

5. Freedom is mainly the domain of whom?

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