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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 does Augustine basically end up doing to the role of personal freedom?

2. In the Middle Ages, what renews the interest in the quest for freedom?

3. How do many in the nobility view the princeps?

4. The fact that Jesus is crucified and dies has critics doing what?

5. What parts of the Roman economy are slave-based?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is freedom at this time?

2. Where are Paul's large conversion rates located?

3. What is Paul's role in shaping Christianity?

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

5. Describe the Roman economy and society.

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

7. What conflict takes place in this period?

8. What are the consequences of Jesus' crucifixion?

9. Rome extends its power and rule to the Italian peninsula through a series of wars and conquests in 266 B.C. What are the consequences?

10. Why does the populace accept Augustus?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Stoicism and Christianity offer people inner peace and salvation.

Part 1) What is stoicism? Compare stoicism with Christianity.

Part 2) Does stoicism still exist? Explain. Why has Christianity survived?

Part 3) What role does Paul have in shaping Christianity? How does Christianity change because of Paul? How is his influence seen in the Christian Church today?

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 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?

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