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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. As what do his views become known?
(a) The theology of monotheism.
(b) The theology of Christianity.
(c) The theology of Christ.
(d) The theology of freedom.

2. What are slaves seeking and finding in Christianity?
(a) Family.
(b) Food and shelter.
(c) Love.
(d) Freedom and escape from bondage.

3. Whose thinking basically molds the early church and shapes generations of theological thinkers?
(a) John's.
(b) Mark's.
(c) Paul's.
(d) Peter's.

4. Of whom does the majority of the population consist?
(a) Grecians.
(b) Native Romans.
(c) Aliens.
(d) Italians.

5. How is the cult of Christianity similar to other cults of the time?
(a) It is polytheistic.
(b) It is monotheistic.
(c) It contains a savior.
(d) It preaches the coming of the apocalypse.

6. What does the Christian religion offer to the weaker elements of Hellenistic society?
(a) Fear.
(b) Wealth.
(c) Hope.
(d) Love.

7. The upper class young men of the time are educated in Stoicism and despise who?
(a) The middle class.
(b) The populace.
(c) The other members of the upper class.
(d) The slaves.

8. The second conflict takes place between 340-266 A.D., resulting in what?
(a) Rome being taken over by the Greeks.
(b) Rome growing and expanding to become Italy.
(c) Rome growing and expanding to become Greece.
(d) Rome shrinking and consolidating.

9. In what do plebeians have more faith?
(a) One-man-rule.
(b) No rulers.
(c) Many minor rulers.
(d) No-man-rule.

10. From what does the development of the concept of freedom in Rome result?
(a) A series of debates.
(b) A series of struggles.
(c) A smooth transition.
(d) A contrasting jump from slavery to freedom.

11. Who has the most freedom in terms of the sovereignal aspect of freedom?
(a) The peasants.
(b) The king.
(c) The men.
(d) The women.

12. Why do they accept the sovereignal freedom of the emperor?
(a) He will do what he can to take care of them.
(b) It poses less of a threat to their own personal freedom than does the civic freedom of the upper class.
(c) They do not want any other ruler.
(d) He is a kind man.

13. Is it still possible for the upper class to experience personal freedom even when their civic freedom is severely limited by the princeps?
(a) Sometimes.
(b) Yes.
(c) Maybe.
(d) No.

14. According to Augustine, from where does freedom come?
(a) Others.
(b) As something that is inherited.
(c) As a gift from God.
(d) The mind.

15. What do Jesus' followers turn into an act of glorification and propaganda?
(a) The dying of God.
(b) The reason for the season.
(c) The saving of man.
(d) The scandal of the cross.

Short Answer Questions

1. Law and the state of grace are _________.

2. What does Augustine basically end up doing to the role of personal freedom?

3. As Europe emerges from the Middle Ages, the church and European states become ____________ in terms of absolutism and thought processes.

4. Augustus uses his sovereignal power for the______ of the populace.

5. What is the role of Jesus?

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