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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. The upper class young men of the time are educated in Stoicism and despise who?
(a) The slaves.
(b) The populace.
(c) The other members of the upper class.
(d) The middle class.

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

3. What do Jesus' followers turn into an act of glorification and propaganda?
(a) The dying of God.
(b) The scandal of the cross.
(c) The reason for the season.
(d) The saving of man.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How is Rome similar to Greece?

2. Freedom is mainly the domain of whom?

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

4. What are slaves seeking and finding in Christianity?

5. As Europe emerges from the Middle Ages, the church and European states become ____________ in terms of absolutism and thought processes.

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What conflict takes place in this period?

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

4. Why does the populace accept Augustus?

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

6. What is freedom at this time?

7. What are the consequences of Jesus' crucifixion?

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

9. What is Reactionary Stoicism?

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

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