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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What do Jesus' followers turn into an act of glorification and propaganda?
(a) The saving of man.
(b) The dying of God.
(c) The scandal of the cross.
(d) The reason for the season.

3. How is the cult of Christianity similar to other cults of the time?
(a) It is monotheistic.
(b) It preaches the coming of the apocalypse.
(c) It contains a savior.
(d) It is polytheistic.

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

5. Who represents Reactionary Stoicism?
(a) Charlemagne.
(b) Cato.
(c) Caitlin.
(d) Carl.

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

7. How is the crucifixion of Jesus referred?
(a) As the "dying of God."
(b) As the "scandal of the cross."
(c) As the "reason for the season."
(d) As the "saving of man."

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

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

10. Law and the state of grace are _________.
(a) Opposites.
(b) The same.
(c) Related.
(d) Similar.

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. What happens once Christianity appears?

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

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