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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the days of ancient Carthage, the slave develops what kind of value?
(a) Economic.
(b) Human.
(c) Equal.
(d) Social.

2. What is the third revolution, which involves the emergence of democracy?
(a) A social revolution.
(b) An economic revolution.
(c) A political revolution.
(d) A philosophical revolution.

3. According to Patterson, what are the three components of freedom?
(a) Formal, informal, and community.
(b) Personal, sovereignal, and civic.
(c) Ruler, kingdom, and peasant.
(d) Individual, unique, and social.

4. How do societies everywhere regard the inception of freedom as a value?
(a) They are envious of it.
(b) They encourag it.
(c) They resist it.
(d) They ignore it.

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 literacy and the development of a legal written code.
(c) The spread of wealth among this new class.
(d) The spread of legal tender that quickly reveals wealth.

Short Answer Questions

1. By whom is society transformed?

2. The financial welfare of the slaveholder is now becoming dependent on what?

3. Eventually, the differing views of freedom lead to what?

4. What kind of revolution is the fourth revolution, marked by the formation of social and moral sciences based on rationality?

5. There is a shift in agricultural production away from what into the production of olives, figs, fruits, etc.?

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