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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 do the plebeians view the civic freedom of the upper class?
(a) As something to desire.
(b) As a form of personal freedom.
(c) As a good compromise to their personal freedom.
(d) As a threat to their own personal freedom.

2. How do Jesus' followers reply to the critics?
(a) Jesus dies for the good of mankind and is resurrected.
(b) Jesus will return in three days.
(c) Jesus knows all the critics.
(d) Jesus has died.

3. In the Middle Ages, what renews the interest in the quest for freedom?
(a) The compassion of the king.
(b) The oppression of serfdom.
(c) The freedom of serfdom.
(d) The end of slavery.

4. The practice of manumission and co-optation means the native born Romans, or the ruling class, are what?
(a) Weaker than the slaves.
(b) Numerically now the majority.
(c) Numerically now a minority.
(d) Not as intelligent as the slaves.

5. What parts of the Roman economy are slave-based?
(a) Neither urban nor rural.
(b) Both urban and rural.
(c) Rural.
(d) Urban.

Short Answer Questions

1. From what does freedom come?

2. According to Patterson, how many phases exist in the development of early Christianity?

3. Whose thinking basically molds the early church and shapes generations of theological thinkers?

4. With whom do the patricians conflict?

5. What is the role of Jesus?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why does the populace accept Augustus?

3. What happens when Christianity appears?

4. What is freedom at this time?

5. Describe the Roman economy and society.

6. Rome extends its power and rule to the Italian peninsula through a series of wars and conquests in 266 B.C. What are the consequences?

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

8. How have women's lives begun to change?

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

10. Two questions arise from Paul's theology. What are we saved from? To whom or what are we enslaved? What are the answers?

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