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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. What does a second factor have to do with, which Patterson sees as "a strategic class error" (p. 65) because it results in a standard against which things can be measured?

2. The financial welfare of the slaveholder is now becoming dependent on what?

3. How do these slaves from the mines and those in the urban sector provide for the Athenians?

4. In this chapter, what does Patterson examine?

5. To what does this expose the Greeks?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What role does slavery play in this conflict?

3. What is a third revolution?

4. Patterson draws heavily on Greek drama to make his point. Give one example from which he cites.

5. Why are foreign slaves brought into the country?

6. What do light and darkness symbolize used by the Greek dramatist?

7. The contemporaneous development of slavery and the concept of freedom characterize ancient Athens and Greece. How does Patterson again use Greek drama to support this point?

8. How does Patterson view the development of freedom as a social value?

9. What does this chapter describe?

10. 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?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The preoccupation with freedom is a predominantly Western concept.

Part 1) Prove or Disprove this statement. Is preoccupation predominantly a Western concept?

Part 2) Why is the west preoccupied with freedom?

Part 3) How has this preoccupation led to Western civilization as we know it?

Essay Topic 2

Patterson states he does not mean for his book to be a study of the intellectual study of freedom, but the historical development of freedom a a social value.

Part 1) Why is this his purpose?

Part 2) Based on this book, what might be the author's thoughts on the social value of freedom? Why?

Part 3) Why must the study of the intellectual study of freedom naturally be a part of this book, even though it is not what the author intended?

Essay Topic 3

The differing views of freedom lead to social conflict and upheaval.

Part 1) What are the differing views of freedom? How do they lead to conflict?

Part 2) How does the conflict and upheaval affect the society? Which group of individuals does it affect the most? Why?

Part 3) How has this occurred multiple times throughout history? Are the outcomes always similar? Why or why not?

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