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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens to debtors at this time?
(a) They are exiled.
(b) They are hanged.
(c) They are protected.
(d) They are sold into slavery.

2. In this type of freedom, an individual can do what he wants without the constraint of what?
(a) Having to pay for it.
(b) His own wishes.
(c) The wishes of others.
(d) Any choice.

3. To what does this lead?
(a) The lower and middle class women commiserating and identifying with slaves.
(b) The lower and upper class women commiserating and identifying with their children.
(c) The upper and middle class women commiserating and identifying with the slaves.
(d) All women commiserating and identifying with their friends and relatives.

4. Between what freedoms do they distinguish?
(a) Personal and civic.
(b) Outer and inner.
(c) Smooth and rigid.
(d) Warm and cool.

5. What is an outgrowth of Socratic thought in which there is complete personal freedom, both inner and outer?
(a) The Socratic method.
(b) Cynicism
(c) Epicureanism
(d) Stoicism.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the days of ancient Carthage, the slave develops what kind of value?

2. This means that there has to be an increase in what?

3. When is this view of Mortal life beginning to be questioned?

4. The whole fabric of society exists around and is dependent on what?

5. Which of Aeschylus' plays does he cite?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the importance of the significance on the development of freedom as a social value?

2. Eventually the differing views of freedom lead to social conflict and upheaval. What causes this?

3. How does Patterson view the development of freedom as a social value?

4. Describe the Oedipus trilogy of Sophocles in relation to freedom.

5. How does Patterson, again, use Greek drama to examine the role of women?

6. Describe the Imbangala people of Africa, regarding slavery.

7. Describe the slavery issue in the South Pacific.

8. Describe one group of intellectuals.

9. What does the Peloponnesian War do to Athens and Greece?

10. What does Plato say about the soul?

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