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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who did the women confined to home have for company?
(a) Their children.
(b) Relatives.
(c) Slaves.
(d) Friends.

2. The financial welfare of the slaveholder is now becoming dependent on what?
(a) The productivity of the slave.
(b) The intelligence of the slave.
(c) The physical attributes of the slave.
(d) The social class of the slave.

3. What would a slave in this culture not have that is necessary to protect and nurture him?
(a) The family and friendship structure.
(b) A slave master.
(c) Rules.
(d) Food and shelter.

4. Why is freedom not practical for a slave during this period?
(a) The slave master would not have an adequate amount of workers.
(b) He would have family with which to stay.
(c) He is not intelligent.
(d) He does not have a place to go.

5. What does a second factor have to do with, which Patterson sees as "a strategic class error" (p. 65) because it results in a standard against which things can be measured?
(a) The spread of disease.
(b) The spread of legal tender that quickly reveals wealth.
(c) The spread of literacy and the development of a legal written code.
(d) The spread of wealth among this new class.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to debtors at this time?

2. How does Greek drama, especially tragedy, credit women?

3. Since the slave master's financial welfare depended on the slave, what did he have to do?

4. Which social classes of women are restricted to their houses with very little social life?

5. Among the Tupinamba, why does the slave exist?

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