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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. Greek drama represents what?
(a) A discourse on values.
(b) A fantasy.
(c) A time away from real life.
(d) A realistic view of women in society.

2. In this chapter, what does Patterson examine?
(a) The view of slavery in Roman culture.
(b) The view of inner freedom.
(c) The view of outer freedom.
(d) The view of rigid freedom.

3. What happens to debtors at this time?
(a) They are protected.
(b) They are exiled.
(c) They are hanged.
(d) They are sold into slavery.

4. What are the three elements of freedom called?
(a) The Choral trio.
(b) The Cord thrice.
(c) The Chordal triad.
(d) The Corpus triad.

5. According to Plato, what is the soul like?
(a) The true person.
(b) A mini-state in that it contains three parts.
(c) A container of thoughts.
(d) A transparent being.

Short Answer Questions

1. Did freedom as an idea develop into a value everywhere?

2. At the end of the war in 230 B.C., Athens establishes what, that brings their imperialism to an end?

3. Where are these elements first expressed?

4. Why must one be aware of and concerned with the thoughts and opinions of the intellectuals?

5. In what revolution does the slaveholder become economically dependent on the slave for his own financial well-being?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does it mean to be Greek at this time?

2. How does slavery develop and change during this period in Carthage?

3. What does Plato say about the soul?

4. From what do personal freedom and civic freedom awareness result?

5. What is a third revolution?

6. 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?

7. Why are foreign slaves brought into the country?

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

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

10. Describe the slavery issue in the South Pacific.

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