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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. How does Patterson describe the elements of slavery?
(a) As a loss of power and embarrassment.
(b) As having no family, friends, or home.
(c) As being a vagrant, weak, and unintelligent.
(d) As powerlessness, natal alienation and dishonor.

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

8. How do Jesus' followers reply to the critics?
(a) Jesus has died.
(b) Jesus will return in three days.
(c) Jesus dies for the good of mankind and is resurrected.
(d) Jesus knows all the critics.

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

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

11. Why do they accept the sovereignal freedom of the emperor?
(a) They do not want any other ruler.
(b) It poses less of a threat to their own personal freedom than does the civic freedom of the upper class.
(c) He will do what he can to take care of them.
(d) He is a kind man.

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

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

14. How is the cult of Christianity similar to other cults of the time?
(a) It is monotheistic.
(b) It contains a savior.
(c) It preaches the coming of the apocalypse.
(d) It is polytheistic.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Is it still possible for the upper class to experience personal freedom even when their civic freedom is severely limited by the princeps?

2. Whose thinking basically molds the early church and shapes generations of theological thinkers?

3. Augustine expands Paul's view and tries to incorporate what conception of freedom and God?

4. According to Patterson, how many phases exist in the development of early Christianity?

5. According to Paul, from what are we saved?

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