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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. For whom are the plays?

2. What happens to these former slaves that become successful and prosperous?

3. Athens experiences how many results from the transition to a slave economy?

4. How does this chapter examine the role of women in the development of the concept of freedom?

5. In what revolution does a large slave population exist to serve the aristocracy and non-farm population?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is a second revolution?

2. Describe one group of intellectuals.

3. Given the premise that a social reaction between slave, slaveholder and society must take place in order for freedom to develop as a value, why didn't freedom as a value develop universally?

4. What leads to war and the end of Athens' imperialism?

5. Explain one of the schools of thought.

6. What is a third revolution?

7. From what do personal freedom and civic freedom awareness result?

8. This chapter examines the role of Greece in the historical development of freedom as a social value. What are the four designated periods of interest?

9. What are the schools of thought among Hellenistic thinkers?

10. What does Plato say about the soul?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The overwhelming concern of the Roman population is with personal freedom.

Part 1) Compare Roman concerns about freedom with the Greek concerns.

Part 2) Why is this the Roman population's greatest concern? How does Augustus play into these concerns?

Part 3) How is the United States a conglomeration of both Greek and Roman views on freedom? Why are we a mixture of both?

Essay Topic 2

The living conditions of many Athenian women are harsh.

Part 1) Describe these living conditions. Why are they harsh?

Part 2) What is the connection between their conditions and slavery?

Part 3) What is surprising about the women who have the harshest of living conditions? Why this surprising?

Essay Topic 3

By medieval times, Europe makes the transition from slavery to serfdom.

Part 1) Compare slavery to serfdom. Why does the end of the Roman Empire not end slavery?

Part 2) Why do historians down play the role of freedom during this period of time?

Part 3) Who controls freedom at this time? How do people at this time think of freedom? Why?

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