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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. What are slaves seeking and finding in Christianity?
(a) Love.
(b) Food and shelter.
(c) Family.
(d) Freedom and escape from bondage.

2. What is one of the phases?
(a) The birth of Jesus.
(b) The Crucifixion.
(c) The baptism of John.
(d) The prophetic phase of Jesus and the Jesus movement.

3. By what is slavery somewhat undermined in late 7 A.D.?
(a) Mass conversion to Christianity.
(b) Mass conversion to Judaism.
(c) Mass conversion to Islam.
(d) Mass conversion to Buddhism.

4. How is Rome similar to Greece?
(a) It's people speak the same language.
(b) It is the same shape.
(c) It led by the same ruler.
(d) It is also a slave-based economy.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How is this conflict referred?

2. The third involves the restructuring of Italian what?

3. What happens once Christianity appears?

4. On what is the focus of this chapter?

5. How is the cult of Christianity similar to other cults of the time?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Reformist Stoicism?

2. Describe the Roman economy and society.

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

4. How do the beliefs of different sects compare?

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

6. What happens when Christianity appears?

7. What conflict takes place in this period?

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

9. What is Paul's role in shaping Christianity?

10. What are the consequences of Jesus' crucifixion?

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