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

2. 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.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Reactionary Stoicism appeal to the Roman upper classes?

2. How is Rome similar to Greece?

3. Augustine expands Paul's view and tries to incorporate what conception of freedom and God?

4. Where does slavery exist until 11 A.D. and the on-set of feudalism?

5. What is the role of Jesus?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Why does the populace accept Augustus?

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

5. What is freedom at this time?

6. What is Reformist Stoicism?

7. What conflict takes place in this period?

8. How do the beliefs of different sects compare?

9. How does Augustus influence the interpretations of freedom?

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

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