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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. Upon what form of freedom do intellectuals frown?
(a) The civic view.
(b) The rigid view.
(c) The outer or external view.
(d) The warm view.

2. Who are the Sophists?
(a) One of the groups of intellectuals that influence Greek thought and values.
(b) The followers of an intellectual named Sophie.
(c) One of the groups of intellectuals that influence Roman thought.
(d) One of the groups that conflicts with the intellectuals.

3. What is not entirely correct regarding freedom and slavery?
(a) Defining them purely in terms of social status.
(b) Defining them purely in terms of legal status.
(c) Defining them purely in terms of personal status.
(d) Defining them without terms of legal status.

4. The whole fabric of society exists around and is dependent on what?
(a) Equality.
(b) Community solidarity.
(c) Freedom as a social value.
(d) The institution of slavery.

5. When has someone achieved inner freedom?
(a) When an individual prays to his or her gods.
(b) When an individual becomes educated in freedom.
(c) When an individual dies.
(d) When an individual is an independent thinker.

Short Answer Questions

1. What delineates the fifth revolution of this period?

2. Why is freedom not practical for a slave during this period?

3. 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?

4. In what revolution does a large slave population exist to serve the aristocracy and non-farm population?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does it mean to be Greek at this time?

3. What is a second revolution?

4. Explain one of the schools of thought.

5. This chapter examines the role of Greece in the historical development of freedom as a social value. What are the four designated periods of interest?

6. What are Patterson's three components of freedom?

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

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

9. What is a third revolution?

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

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