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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. On what is the focus of this chapter?
(a) Mark and Luke's life after Jesus' death.
(b) Paul and his role in shaping Christianity.
(c) John and his role in shaping Christianity.
(d) Peter and his relationship with Christ.

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

3. What happens once Christianity appears?
(a) It spreads quickly through Greece.
(b) It spreads slowly throughout the Roman Empire.
(c) It spreads rapidly throughout the Roman Empire.
(d) It stays in the Middle East.

4. Augustus uses his sovereignal power for the______ of the populace.
(a) Wealthy.
(b) Poor.
(c) No member.
(d) Good.

5. Most of the freedom granted is to whom?
(a) Individuals.
(b) Families.
(c) Villages.
(d) Communities or groups of guilds.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is one of the phases?

2. Who represents Reactionary Stoicism?

3. According to Patterson, how many phases exist in the development of early Christianity?

4. In what do plebeians have more faith?

5. The upper class young men of the time are educated in Stoicism and despise who?

Short Essay Questions

1. How have women's lives begun to change?

2. What is the purpose of this chapter?

3. In trying to define the relationship between church and state, four interpretations are proposed by Patterson. What are these interpretations?

4. Where are Paul's large conversion rates located?

5. How does Augustus influence the interpretations of freedom?

6. How do the beliefs of different sects compare?

7. What is Reformist Stoicism?

8. What is the relationship between church and state at the end of the Middle Ages?

9. What phases exist in the development of early Christianity?

10. What has happened to society by the medieval times?

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