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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 does a second factor have to do with, which Patterson sees as "a strategic class error" (p. 65) because it results in a standard against which things can be measured?
(a) The spread of legal tender that quickly reveals wealth.
(b) The spread of wealth among this new class.
(c) The spread of literacy and the development of a legal written code.
(d) The spread of disease.

2. Which women had more activities outside the home?
(a) The lower down the women are on the social ladder.
(b) Those women in the middle of the social ladder.
(c) The higher up the women are on the social ladder.
(d) Any woman on the social ladder.

3. What are palatine centralism, decentralized tribalism, rudimentary state formation and aristocratic resurgence?
(a) Four designated periods of interest.
(b) Four Grecian rules.
(c) Four villages.
(d) Four city-states.

4. Who either fear being captured and made into slaves, or are already slaves and want release?
(a) Non-Greeks.
(b) Men.
(c) Women.
(d) Children.

5. What is also a factor contributing to the social conflict of this time?
(a) Education.
(b) Slavery
(c) Equality.
(d) Freedom.

Short Answer Questions

1. What school of thought is one of moral introspection, postulating that the soul is trapped inside the body during life and is freed when the body dies.

2. To what can the development of freedom as a social value be traced?

3. What is not entirely correct regarding freedom and slavery?

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

5. In earlier cultures, what was ultimately done with the captive slave?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

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

3. What does this chapter describe?

4. During the war in the sixth century B.C., Greek cities are occupied by the Persians. What does this do to the Greeks?

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

6. 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?

7. What is the role of slaves in this society?

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

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

10. How does slavery develop and change during this period in Carthage?

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