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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. When has someone achieved inner freedom?
(a) When an individual becomes educated in freedom.
(b) When an individual prays to his or her gods.
(c) When an individual is an independent thinker.
(d) When an individual dies.

3. 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?
(a) Torture.
(b) Efficiency.
(c) Inequality.
(d) Manumission.

4. Who are many of the proponents of these schools of thought?
(a) The middle class.
(b) The aristocracy.
(c) Slaves or former slaves.
(d) The upper class.

5. Who either fear being captured and made into slaves, or are already slaves and want release?
(a) Children.
(b) Women.
(c) Non-Greeks.
(d) Men.

6. What is an example of a social reform for the abolishment of debt, debt bondage and enslavement for debt?
(a) Solomon's seisochtheia.
(b) Solon's seisochtheia.
(c) Solomon's seize.
(d) Solon's seize.

7. When is this view of Mortal life beginning to be questioned?
(a) By the end of the sixth century B.C.
(b) By the middle of the fifth century B.C.
(c) By the end of the fifth century B.C.
(d) By the middle of the sixth century B.C.

8. To what does this expose the Greeks?
(a) The opulent lifestyle of the Persians.
(b) The opulent lifestyle of the Franks.
(c) The opulent lifestyle of the Romans.
(d) The opulent lifestyle of the Saxons.

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

10. Of what is Greek drama full?
(a) Strong women in small roles.
(b) Weak women in small roles.
(c) Strong women commanding leading roles.
(d) Weak women in leading roles.

11. Between what freedoms do they distinguish?
(a) Outer and inner.
(b) Personal and civic.
(c) Warm and cool.
(d) Smooth and rigid.

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

13. Where are these elements first expressed?
(a) In the worship of Athena.
(b) In the wedding oration of Perna.
(c) In the feast of Zeus.
(d) In the funeral oration of Pericles.

14. What happens to these former slaves that become successful and prosperous?
(a) They are abused by the aristocracy and the still-oppressed slaves.
(b) They cause resentment among the still-oppressed slaves.
(c) They miss their old lives.
(d) They become disrespectful and out of control.

15. On what does Patterson draw heavily to make his point?
(a) Roman plays.
(b) Greek drama.
(c) German symphonies.
(d) French operas.

Short Answer Questions

1. These factors lead to the development of what kind of society?

2. With _____________ freedom, the individual is not dominated by another human.

3. Again what does Patterson use to support this point?

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

5. Greek drama represents what?

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