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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do many in the nobility view the princeps?
(a) As a form of leadership.
(b) As a form of wealth.
(c) As a form of power.
(d) As a form of slavery.

2. Freedom is mainly the domain of whom?
(a) The serfs.
(b) The King.
(c) The landowner.
(d) The Queen.

3. Whose thinking basically molds the early church and shapes generations of theological thinkers?
(a) Mark's.
(b) Paul's.
(c) Peter's.
(d) John's.

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

5. How is this conflict referred?
(a) As the need for order.
(b) As the transition to order.
(c) As the struggle of the orders.
(d) As the fight for orders.

6. To what are the Reactionary Stoicism beliefs adapted?
(a) Fit their religious beliefs.
(b) Fit their version of personal freedom.
(c) Fit their version of civic freedom.
(d) Fit their amount of wealth.

7. What happens once Christianity appears?
(a) It stays in the Middle East.
(b) It spreads slowly throughout the Roman Empire.
(c) It spreads rapidly throughout the Roman Empire.
(d) It spreads quickly through Greece.

8. Where are the greatest conversion rates?
(a) In regions where slavery predominates.
(b) In upper class societies.
(c) In middle class societies.
(d) Among the Hellenic thinkers.

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

10. What does Augustine basically end up doing to the role of personal freedom?
(a) Encouraging it.
(b) Playing it up.
(c) Emphasizing it.
(d) Downplaying it.

11. What is the role of Jesus?
(a) He is the first leader of the Christian church.
(b) He is the only leader of the church.
(c) He begins the church.
(d) He is the prophet delivering his message or vision.

12. What parts of the Roman economy are slave-based?
(a) Both urban and rural.
(b) Rural.
(c) Neither urban nor rural.
(d) Urban.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Of whom does the majority of the population consist?

2. How do many of the serfs and peasants receive rights?

3. How do the plebeians view the civic freedom of the upper class?

4. As what do his views become known?

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

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