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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Plato, what is the soul like?
(a) The true person.
(b) A transparent being.
(c) A mini-state in that it contains three parts.
(d) A container of thoughts.

2. There is a shift in agricultural production away from what into the production of olives, figs, fruits, etc.?
(a) Grain production.
(b) Wheat production.
(c) Flax production.
(d) Corn production.

3. At the end of the war in 230 B.C., Athens establishes what, that brings their imperialism to an end?
(a) A monarchy.
(b) A dictatorship.
(c) A democratic republic.
(d) A kingdom.

4. What kind of freedom is this, on a national level?
(a) Personal.
(b) Sovereignal.
(c) Civic.
(d) Community.

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

6. The concern with personal freedom basically results from whom?
(a) Female slaves of the period.
(b) Male landowners of the period.
(c) Male slaves of the period.
(d) Female landowners of the period.

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

8. How does Greek society hold women?
(a) Not very highly.
(b) Somewhat highly.
(c) Very highly.
(d) Not at all.

9. What dictates mortal life?
(a) Fate.
(b) Evolution.
(c) Accident.
(d) Decisions made by each individual.

10. Again what does Patterson use to support this point?
(a) Greek drama.
(b) French operas.
(c) Roman plays.
(d) German symphonies.

11. Freedom becomes associated with what in the minds of the populace?
(a) Civic freedom.
(b) Sovereignal freedom.
(c) Victory over the Persians.
(d) Pesonal freedom.

12. In what revolution does a large slave population exist to serve the aristocracy and non-farm population?
(a) An economic revolution.
(b) A social revolution.
(c) A freedom revolution.
(d) A political revolution.

13. A social reaction between slave, slaveholder and society must take place in order for what to happen?
(a) A person to be enslaved.
(b) Freedom to develop as a value.
(c) Inequality to exist.
(d) Various social classes to exist.

14. What does the slave want?
(a) To be given work.
(b) To be free and an equal member of society.
(c) To be loved.
(d) To be given the necessities of survival.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What groups are excluded from any say in the government of the ruling wealthy?

2. What is also a factor contributing to the social conflict of this time?

3. Who are the only beings that are truly free?

4. In order to foster productivity, there is also an accompanying increase in what, since this is the only way the society can attain the output it needs to survive?

5. Which of the following statements describes the new class that arises?

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