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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 rigid view.
(b) The outer or external view.
(c) The civic view.
(d) The warm view.

2. According to Plato, what is the soul like?
(a) The true person.
(b) A container of thoughts.
(c) A transparent being.
(d) A mini-state in that it contains three parts.

3. These factors lead to the development of what kind of society?
(a) A native slave based society.
(b) No longer a slave based society.
(c) A kingdom with serfs instead of slaves.
(d) A foreign slave based society.

4. This chapter describes events in the period between the Persian War and the beginning of what?
(a) The Peloponnesian War.
(b) The Renaissance.
(c) The Middle Ages.
(d) The 100 Years War.

5. Who writes the dramas?
(a) Female playwrights.
(b) Leaders of the aristocracy.
(c) Male playwrights.
(d) Poor men.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who destroys the Athenians system of democracy in 322 B.C.?

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

3. For what do the slaves yearn?

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

5. Three schools of thought exist among what thinkers?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the effect of the Peloponnesian War on Athens and Greece affect slavery?

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

3. Describe the slavery issue in the South Pacific.

4. What are the living conditions of women?

5. Given the premise that a social reaction between slave, slaveholder and society must take place in order for freedom to develop as a value, why didn't freedom as a value develop universally?

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. How does Patterson view the development of freedom as a social value?

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

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