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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. How does Greek drama, especially tragedy, credit women?
(a) With being responsible for guiding their men along the correct path.
(b) With being responsible for feeding the Greek population.
(c) With being responsible for building up the Greek population.
(d) With being responsible for developing the social consciousness of concern for personal freedom and independence.

2. In what revolution does a large slave population exist to serve the aristocracy and non-farm population?
(a) A political revolution.
(b) An economic revolution.
(c) A social revolution.
(d) A freedom revolution.

3. What is the third revolution, which involves the emergence of democracy?
(a) A philosophical revolution.
(b) A political revolution.
(c) An economic revolution.
(d) A social revolution.

4. Greek drama represents what?
(a) A time away from real life.
(b) A discourse on values.
(c) A fantasy.
(d) A realistic view of women in society.

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. Personal freedom awareness results from the role of what Greeks?

2. What are palatine centralism, decentralized tribalism, rudimentary state formation and aristocratic resurgence?

3. The contemporaneous development of slavery and the concept of freedom characterize what societies?

4. Upon what form of freedom do intellectuals frown?

5. In what revolution does the slaveholder become economically dependent on the slave for his own financial well-being?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the importance of Greek religion on freedom?

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

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

4. What does Plato say about the soul?

5. What does this chapter describe?

6. What are the living conditions of women?

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

8. What role does slavery play in this conflict?

9. Explain one of the schools of thought.

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

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