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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who has the most freedom in terms of the sovereignal aspect of freedom?
(a) The women.
(b) The king.
(c) The peasants.
(d) The men.

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

3. With whom do the patricians conflict?
(a) The plebeians.
(b) The euclids.
(c) The pueblos.
(d) The metics.

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

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

6. 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.

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

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 the middle class.
(d) The welfare of themselves.

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

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

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

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

13. Is it still possible for the upper class to experience personal freedom even when their civic freedom is severely limited by the princeps?
(a) Sometimes.
(b) Maybe.
(c) No.
(d) Yes.

14. Since the sovereignal aspect of freedom dominates this era, historians have tended to ___________ the role of freedom.
(a) Ignore.
(b) Focus on.
(c) Downplay.
(d) Play up.

15. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do his ideas provide?

2. Law and the state of grace are _________.

3. Where are the greatest conversion rates?

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

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

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