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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What does this chapter examine?
(a) The role of Paul in shaping Christianity's attitude about other gods.
(b) The role of Paul as the ruler of the Christian faith.
(c) The role of Paul as the father of Christianity.
(d) The role of Paul in shaping Christianity's attitude on freedom.

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

5. What happens once Christianity appears?
(a) It spreads quickly through Greece.
(b) It spreads rapidly throughout the Roman Empire.
(c) It spreads slowly throughout the Roman Empire.
(d) It stays in the Middle East.

6. How is this conflict referred?
(a) As the fight for orders.
(b) As the transition to order.
(c) As the need for order.
(d) As the struggle of the orders.

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

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

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

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

11. He extols the virtue of the ruler as what for the populace?
(a) A strong hand and firm master.
(b) A god.
(c) A wife.
(d) A provider and protector.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Augustine, from where does freedom come?

2. By what is slavery somewhat undermined in late 7 A.D.?

3. To whom do Augustus and the following emperors link themselves?

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

5. What does Augustine basically end up doing to the role of personal freedom?

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