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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. In what revolution does the slaveholder become economically dependent on the slave for his own financial well-being?

2. The occupation makes the Greeks think about what issues?

3. This means that there has to be an increase in what?

4. Among the Tupinamba, why does the slave exist?

5. In this type of freedom, an individual can do what he wants without the constraint of what?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

2. What does the Peloponnesian War do to Athens and Greece?

3. Describe the Oedipus trilogy of Sophocles in relation to freedom.

4. What role does slavery play in this conflict?

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

6. What are Patterson's three components of freedom?

7. Explain one of the schools of thought.

8. How does slavery develop and change during this period in Carthage?

9. How does Patterson, again, use Greek drama to examine the role of women?

10. Why is freedom not a social value of the Tupinamba people of Brazil in the sixteenth century?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The development of freedom as a social value can be traced to five revolutions that occurred in Athens.

Part 1) Describe these five revolutions. Why did they take place?

Part 2) How did these revolutions affect the countries and city-states surrounding the revolutions? How do they affect U.S. policies today?

Part 3) What would our society be like if these revolutions had never taken place?

Essay Topic 2

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 3

Freedom was not always practical for a slave.

Part 1) Why would it not be practical? What would be needed for a slave to be freed and to survive?

Part 2) With this in mind, how is it possible that a large majority of countries no longer practice slavery?

Part 3) Does slavery exist today? Where? In what forms? To what or whom are people enslaved?

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