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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. As what do his views become known?
(a) The theology of Christ.
(b) The theology of Christianity.
(c) The theology of monotheism.
(d) The theology of freedom.

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

3. He extols the virtue of the ruler as what for the populace?
(a) A god.
(b) A strong hand and firm master.
(c) A provider and protector.
(d) A wife.

4. Since the sovereignal aspect of freedom dominates this era, historians have tended to ___________ the role of freedom.
(a) Ignore.
(b) Play up.
(c) Focus on.
(d) Downplay.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is sin considered to be?

2. In what forms do these rights or freedoms come?

3. The upper class young men of the time are educated in Stoicism and despise who?

4. Augustus' rule is at the expense of whose civic freedom?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the purpose of this chapter?

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

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

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

5. Why does the populace accept Augustus?

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

7. How do the beliefs of different sects compare?

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

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

10. What is freedom at this time?

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