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

2. On what is the nineteenth century Imbangala people of Africa's society based?
(a) Intelligence.
(b) Lineage.
(c) Strength.
(d) Appearance.

3. How do these slaves from the mines and those in the urban sector provide for the Athenians?
(a) They make medicine for the wealthy Athenians.
(b) They protect them from enemies.
(c) They provide food and supplies.
(d) They provide the means for the growing Athenian imperialism.

4. A social reaction between slave, slaveholder and society must take place in order for what to happen?
(a) A person to be enslaved.
(b) Inequality to exist.
(c) Freedom to develop as a value.
(d) Various social classes to exist.

5. Where are these elements first expressed?
(a) In the funeral oration of Pericles.
(b) In the wedding oration of Perna.
(c) In the worship of Athena.
(d) In the feast of Zeus.

Short Answer Questions

1. Patterson states that he does not mean for his book to be a study of the intellectual study of freedom, but the historical development of what?

2. How does Greek drama, especially tragedy, credit women?

3. How does the ruling class find the majority of the population becoming?

4. When has someone achieved inner freedom?

5. Which of the following statements describes the new class that arises?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is freedom not a social value of the Tupinamba people of Brazil in the sixteenth century?

2. The contemporaneous development of slavery and the concept of freedom characterize ancient Athens and Greece. How does Patterson again use Greek drama to support this point?

3. What is slavery? What is a slave-dominated society like?

4. What are the living conditions of women?

5. Patterson draws heavily on Greek drama to make his point. Give one example from which he cites.

6. Describe one group of intellectuals.

7. Explain one of the schools of thought.

8. Athens experiences three results from the transition to a slave economy. What are these three results?

9. The development of freedom as a social value can be traced to five revolutions that occurred in Athens between 7 and 4 B.C. What is one of the revolutions?

10. What is a third revolution?

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