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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. Freedom is mainly the domain of whom?
(a) The King.
(b) The landowner.
(c) The serfs.
(d) The Queen.

2. What does Augustine basically end up doing to the role of personal freedom?
(a) Playing it up.
(b) Downplaying it.
(c) Encouraging it.
(d) Emphasizing it.

3. How is the cult of Christianity similar to other cults of the time?
(a) It contains a savior.
(b) It is polytheistic.
(c) It is monotheistic.
(d) It preaches the coming of the apocalypse.

4. He extols the virtue of the ruler as what for the populace?
(a) A strong hand and firm master.
(b) A wife.
(c) A provider and protector.
(d) A god.

5. In what do plebeians have more faith?
(a) One-man-rule.
(b) No-man-rule.
(c) Many minor rulers.
(d) No rulers.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who has the most freedom in terms of the sovereignal aspect of freedom?

2. What parts of the Roman economy are slave-based?

3. What is the role of Jesus?

4. What is one of the different periods of serfdom?

5. What do his ideas provide?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the Roman economy and society.

2. What is Reformist Stoicism?

3. What struggles do the Romans face regarding the development of the concept of freedom?

4. Where are Paul's large conversion rates located?

5. What conflict takes place in this period?

6. How does Augustus influence the interpretations of freedom?

7. What phases exist in the development of early Christianity?

8. Why have historians tended to downplay the role of freedom during this time period?

9. What has happened to society by the medieval times?

10. What is the relationship between church and state at the end of the Middle Ages?

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