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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 13.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. This means that there has to be an increase in what?
(a) The production of grain.
(b) The number of farms.
(c) The slave population.
(d) The slave-master population.

2. The practice of manumission and co-optation means the native born Romans, or the ruling class, are what?
(a) Not as intelligent as the slaves.
(b) Numerically now the majority.
(c) Numerically now a minority.
(d) Weaker than the slaves.

3. For what do the slaves yearn?
(a) Love and compassion.
(b) Education.
(c) Freedom and escape from bondage.
(d) Food and shelter.

4. What delineates the fifth revolution of this period?
(a) Concern with economic freedom.
(b) Concern with social freedom.
(c) Concern with political freedom.
(d) Concern with freedom as a value.

5. The contemporaneous development of slavery and the concept of freedom characterize what societies?
(a) Modern Athens and Greece.
(b) Ancient Athens and Greece.
(c) Ancient Carthage and Rome.
(d) Ancient Rome and Greece.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does this chapter examine?

2. The years of the Peloponnesian War bring what to Athens and Greece?

3. How do these slaves from the mines and those in the urban sector provide for the Athenians?

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

5. How does the ruling class find the majority of the population becoming?

(see the answer key)

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