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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. For whom are the plays?
(a) Male audiences.
(b) The lower class.
(c) Female audiences.
(d) The upper class.

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

3. 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) Various social classes to exist.
(d) Inequality to exist.

4. _________________ freedom more or less defines the slave-slave master relationship.
(a) Personal.
(b) Community.
(c) Civic.
(d) Sovereignal.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is freedom not practical for a slave during this period?

2. By whom is society transformed?

3. When is this view of Mortal life beginning to be questioned?

4. To what can the development of freedom as a social value be traced?

5. According to Plato, what is the soul like?

Short Essay Questions

1. What leads to war and the end of Athens' imperialism?

2. Given the premise that a social reaction between slave, slaveholder and society must take place in order for freedom to develop as a value, why didn't freedom as a value develop universally?

3. What role does slavery play in this conflict?

4. Describe the Oedipus trilogy of Sophocles in relation to freedom.

5. Describe the Imbangala people of Africa, regarding slavery.

6. Describe the slavery issue in the South Pacific.

7. Eventually the differing views of freedom lead to social conflict and upheaval. What causes this?

8. What do light and darkness symbolize used by the Greek dramatist?

9. This chapter examines the role of Greece in the historical development of freedom as a social value. What are the four designated periods of interest?

10. What is the role of slaves in this society?

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