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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 are slaves seeking and finding in Christianity?

2. The second conflict takes place between 340-266 A.D., resulting in what?

3. How is this conflict referred?

4. Augustine expands Paul's view and tries to incorporate what conception of freedom and God?

5. What happens to the wretched who convert?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why have historians tended to downplay the role of freedom during this time period?

2. Why does the populace accept Augustus?

3. What struggles do the Romans face regarding the development of the concept of freedom?

4. How have women's lives begun to change?

5. What is the purpose of this chapter?

6. What has happened to society by the medieval times?

7. What happens when Christianity appears?

8. Two questions arise from Paul's theology. What are we saved from? To whom or what are we enslaved? What are the answers?

9. What is the relationship between church and state at the end of the Middle Ages?

10. What are the consequences of Jesus' crucifixion?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

As Europe emerges from the Middle Ages, there are similarities and, yet, conflicts between church and state.

Part 1) What are the similarities bet church and state? Why are the church and state in conflict?

Part 2) How is this conflict settled? How effective is this? Explain.

Part 3) How has conflict continued into modern times? How is this conflict handled today? Why is it handled this way?

Essay Topic 2

Augustus sets the pace for the interpretations of freedom that will define the European chordal triad for the next 1,500 years.

Part 1) Who is Augustus? How does he set the pace?

Part 2) Why is he so influential? What power does he have over the region?

Part 3) How does Augustus change his persona for his people? Why does he do this?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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