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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. Whose thinking basically molds the early church and shapes generations of theological thinkers?
(a) Mark's.
(b) Paul's.
(c) Peter's.
(d) John's.

2. Augustus' rule is at the expense of whose civic freedom?
(a) The lower classes.
(b) The slaves.
(c) The upper classes.
(d) The middle classes.

3. Why does Augustine view personal freedom as a form of emptiness that doesn't result in inner peace?
(a) It does not result in reconciliation.
(b) It does not help others.
(c) It does not benefit him.
(d) It is selfish.

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

5. The third involves the restructuring of Italian what?
(a) Imports.
(b) Politics.
(c) Economics.
(d) Agriculture.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do many in the nobility view the princeps?

2. What do his ideas provide?

3. What happens once Christianity appears?

4. How do many of the serfs and peasants receive rights?

5. What does this chapter examine?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Reactionary Stoicism?

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

3. What happens when Christianity appears?

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

5. In trying to define the relationship between church and state, four interpretations are proposed by Patterson. What are these interpretations?

6. How does Augustus influence the interpretations of freedom?

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

8. 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?

9. What is freedom at this time?

10. What is the purpose of this chapter?

(see the answer keys)

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