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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 third involves the restructuring of Italian what?

2. What do his ideas provide?

3. He extols the virtue of the ruler as what for the populace?

4. How do many of the serfs and peasants receive rights?

5. How does Augustus change his image and his manner of rule during his reign?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What phases exist in the development of early Christianity?

3. How do the beliefs of different sects compare?

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

5. What are the consequences of Jesus' crucifixion?

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

7. In trying to define the relationship between church and state, four interpretations are proposed by Patterson. What are these interpretations?

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

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

10. What is freedom at this time?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 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

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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