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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. With what is freedom equated?
(a) Solitude and self-sufficiency.
(b) Indepence and solitude.
(c) Independence and self-sufficiency.
(d) Dependency and self-sufficiency.

2. The occupation makes the Greeks think about what issues?
(a) Understanding and compromise.
(b) Equality and justice.
(c) Slavery and freedoms of various kinds.
(d) Love and compassion.

3. How does agricultural production shift?
(a) Completely to grain.
(b) Somewhat away from grain.
(c) Toward grain.
(d) Completely away from grain.

4. On what is Athens now completely dependent?
(a) Grain imports.
(b) Grain exports.
(c) Food made from grain.
(d) Grain-based economies.

5. 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.
(a) Stoicism.
(b) The Socratic method.
(c) Epicureanism
(d) Cynicism.

Short Answer Questions

1. The concern with personal freedom basically results from whom?

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

3. Among the Tupinamba, why does the slave exist?

4. Eventually, the differing views of freedom lead to what?

5. What kind of revolution is the fourth revolution, marked by the formation of social and moral sciences based on rationality?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What does this chapter describe?

4. 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?

5. What are the living conditions of women?

6. What does Plato say about the soul?

7. 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?

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

9. Describe one group of intellectuals.

10. What is a third revolution?

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