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

2. In earlier cultures, what was ultimately done with the captive slave?

3. This chapter describes events in the period between the Persian War and the beginning of what?

4. When has someone achieved inner freedom?

5. On what is the nineteenth century Imbangala people of Africa's society based?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are the living conditions of women?

2. What does this chapter describe?

3. Eventually the differing views of freedom lead to social conflict and upheaval. What causes this?

4. What is the importance of the significance on the development of freedom as a social value?

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

6. 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?

7. What is the importance of Greek religion on freedom?

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

9. What is a third revolution?

10. Athens experiences three results from the transition to a slave economy. What are these three results?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The introduction of foreign slavery enhances the native attributes of the freedman.

Part 1) When and where was foreign slavery introduced? Why was it introduced?

Part 2) How does it affect the meaning of freedom and who was free?

Part 3) How is this idea of nativity relating to a freedman reflected in societies today in various social classes?

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 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?

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