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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 form of personal freedom.
(d) As a threat to their own personal freedom.

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

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

4. What is one of the different periods of serfdom?
(a) Liberal serfdom.
(b) Feudal serfdom.
(c) Ruler serfdom.
(d) Conservative serfdom.

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

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

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

8. In what do plebeians have more faith?
(a) No-man-rule.
(b) One-man-rule.
(c) No rulers.
(d) Many minor rulers.

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

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

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

12. What does Jesus not intend to do?
(a) Keep the church in one part of the world.
(b) Leave the church at such a young age.
(c) Lay the foundations for a church based on his teachings.
(d) Die.

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

14. On what is the focus of this chapter?
(a) Peter and his relationship with Christ.
(b) Mark and Luke's life after Jesus' death.
(c) John and his role in shaping Christianity.
(d) Paul and his role in shaping Christianity.

15. The upper class young men of the time are educated in Stoicism and despise who?
(a) The other members of the upper class.
(b) The middle class.
(c) The slaves.
(d) The populace.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens once Christianity appears?

2. How do Jesus' followers reply to the critics?

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

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

5. By medieval times, the character of Europe has become rural __________.

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