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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 purified of sin.
(c) They go to hell.
(d) They are damned.

2. In what forms do these rights or freedoms come?
(a) Events.
(b) Monetary gain.
(c) Charters.
(d) Leadership.

3. From what does the development of the concept of freedom in Rome result?
(a) A series of struggles.
(b) A series of debates.
(c) A contrasting jump from slavery to freedom.
(d) A smooth transition.

4. How is Rome similar to Greece?
(a) It is the same shape.
(b) It is also a slave-based economy.
(c) It's people speak the same language.
(d) It led by the same ruler.

5. The third involves the restructuring of Italian what?
(a) Economics.
(b) Politics.
(c) Imports.
(d) Agriculture.

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

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

8. To whom do Augustus and the following emperors link themselves?
(a) The welfare of the populace.
(b) The welfare of the upper class.
(c) The welfare of themselves.
(d) The welfare of the middle class.

9. According to Augustine, from where does freedom come?
(a) As something that is inherited.
(b) Others.
(c) As a gift from God.
(d) The mind.

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

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

12. By medieval times, the character of Europe has become rural __________.
(a) Kingdoms.
(b) Serfdoms.
(c) Slave-based societies.
(d) Villages.

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

14. Why does Paul say people suffer?
(a) People suffer because of past life mistakes.
(b) People suffer because of others.
(c) People suffer because of their sins.
(d) People suffer because of fate.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why does Augustine view personal freedom as a form of emptiness that doesn't result in inner peace?

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

4. How is the crucifixion of Jesus referred?

5. In the Middle Ages, what renews the interest in the quest for freedom?

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