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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 does Patterson describe the elements of slavery?
(a) As being a vagrant, weak, and unintelligent.
(b) As a loss of power and embarrassment.
(c) As having no family, friends, or home.
(d) As powerlessness, natal alienation and dishonor.

2. How is the crucifixion of Jesus referred?
(a) As the "saving of man."
(b) As the "scandal of the cross."
(c) As the "reason for the season."
(d) As the "dying of God."

3. What does this chapter examine?
(a) The role of Paul as the father of Christianity.
(b) The role of Paul in shaping Christianity's attitude about other gods.
(c) The role of Paul as the ruler of the Christian faith.
(d) The role of Paul in shaping Christianity's attitude on freedom.

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

5. Who has the most freedom in terms of the sovereignal aspect of freedom?
(a) The men.
(b) The women.
(c) The peasants.
(d) The king.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. From what does freedom come?

3. By what is slavery somewhat undermined in late 7 A.D.?

4. Freedom is mainly the domain of whom?

5. Why do they accept the sovereignal freedom of the emperor?

Short Essay Questions

1. What conflict takes place in this period?

2. How do the beliefs of different sects compare?

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

4. What is freedom at this time?

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

6. What is Reformist Stoicism?

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

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

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

10. What are the consequences of Jesus' crucifixion?

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