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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. Slavery is more than just what kind of problem?
(a) In social status.
(b) In personal status.
(c) In legal status.
(d) In sovereignal status.

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

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

4. What must one be to be considered Greek?
(a) Native born.
(b) Intelligent.
(c) A man.
(d) A member of Greek society.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How do societies everywhere regard the inception of freedom as a value?

3. Patterson states that he does not mean for his book to be a study of the intellectual study of freedom, but the historical development of what?

4. What dictates mortal life?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Explain one of the schools of thought.

2. What is a second revolution?

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

4. How does Patterson, again, use Greek drama to examine the role of women?

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

6. 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?

7. Athens experiences three results from the transition to a slave economy. What are these three results?

8. How does Patterson view the development of freedom as a social value?

9. What is slavery? What is a slave-dominated society like?

10. Why is freedom not a social value of the Tupinamba people of Brazil in the sixteenth century?

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