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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. How does agricultural production shift?

2. Who did the women confined to home have for company?

3. What would a slave in this culture not have that is necessary to protect and nurture him?

4. Who does this economically benefit?

5. Three schools of thought exist among what thinkers?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does this chapter describe?

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

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

4. What are the living conditions of women?

5. What is a second revolution?

6. What is a third revolution?

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

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

9. Describe the Imbangala people of Africa, regarding slavery.

10. What is the role of slaves in this society?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

The Western concept of freedom arises from slavery is the basis for the greatness of Western civilization.

Part 1) What is the role of slavery in the development of freedom?

Part 2) Why is it important that slavery have a role in the Western world's concept of freedom?

Part 3) Could our concept of freedom have existed without slavery? Why or why not?

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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