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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. As Europe emerges from the Middle Ages, the church and European states become ____________ in terms of absolutism and thought processes.
(a) The same.
(b) Different.
(c) More similar.
(d) Opposites.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. What is one of the phases?
(a) The birth of Jesus.
(b) The baptism of John.
(c) The Crucifixion.
(d) The prophetic phase of Jesus and the Jesus movement.

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

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

13. How does Augustus change his image and his manner of rule during his reign?
(a) From military oriented to politically oriented.
(b) From personality oriented to military oriented.
(c) From military oriented to personality oriented.
(d) From personality oriented to politically oriented.

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

15. Where does slavery exist until 11 A.D. and the on-set of feudalism?
(a) In Germany and Austria.
(b) In Sweden and Norway.
(c) In France and Italy.
(d) In England and France.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is sin considered to be?

2. From what does freedom come?

3. With whom do the patricians conflict?

4. From what does the development of the concept of freedom in Rome result?

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

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