2. To what can the development of freedom as a social value be traced?
(a) Five revolutions that occurred in Athens between 4 and 7 A.D.
(b) Five revolutions that occurred in Rome between 4 and 7 A.D.
(c) Five revolutions that occurred in Athens between 7 and 4 B.C.
(d) Five revolutions that occurred in Rome between 7 and 4 B.C.

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

4. Did freedom as an idea develop into a value everywhere?
(a) Mostly.
(b) No.
(c) Somewhat.
(d) Yes.

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

6. When does the speech take place?
(a) During the last year of the Peloponnesian War.
(b) During the last year of the Persian War.
(c) During the first year of the Peloponnesian War.
(d) During the first year of the 100 Years War.

7. Freedom is relative in that the more freedom one individual has, the ______ freedom another has.
(a) Better.
(b) Less.
(c) Same.
(d) More.

8. With _____________ freedom, the individual is not dominated by another human.
(a) Sovereignal.
(b) Formal.
(c) Social.
(d) Personal.

9. In earlier cultures, what was ultimately done with the captive slave?
(a) He or she was freed.
(b) He or she was sold.
(c) He or she was eaten.
(d) He or she was given away as a gift.

10. Since the slave master's financial welfare depended on the slave, what did he have to do?
(a) Find a way to motivate the slave to produce.
(b) Trick the slave to produce.
(c) Scare the slave into submission.
(d) Find a way to purchase more slaves.

11. What school of thought is one of moral introspection, postulating that the soul is trapped inside the body during life and is freed when the body dies.
(a) Cynicism.
(b) Stoicism.
(c) The Socratic method.
(d) Epicureanism

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

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

14. The whole fabric of society exists around and is dependent on what?
(a) The institution of slavery.
(b) Equality.
(c) Freedom as a social value.
(d) Community solidarity.

15. This chapter describes events in the period between the Persian War and the beginning of what?
(a) The Middle Ages.
(b) The Peloponnesian War.
(c) The 100 Years War.
(d) The Renaissance.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. Where are these elements first expressed?

3. Society's economic infrastructure consists of what, in addition to larger landholder farms?

4. What is an example of a social reform for the abolishment of debt, debt bondage and enslavement for debt?

5. What dictates mortal life?

(see the answer keys)

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