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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the slave want?

2. For whom are the plays?

3. In earlier cultures, what was ultimately done with the captive slave?

4. Who destroys the Athenians system of democracy in 322 B.C.?

5. What does this chapter examine?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. During the war in the sixth century B.C., Greek cities are occupied by the Persians. What does this do to the Greeks?

3. What does the effect of the Peloponnesian War on Athens and Greece affect slavery?

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

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

6. What role does slavery play in this conflict?

7. The development of freedom as a social value can be traced to five revolutions that occurred in Athens between 7 and 4 B.C. What is one of the revolutions?

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

9. What is the importance of Greek religion on freedom?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The living conditions of many Athenian women are harsh.

Part 1) Describe these living conditions. Why are they harsh?

Part 2) What is the connection between their conditions and slavery?

Part 3) What is surprising about the women who have the harshest of living conditions? Why this surprising?

Essay Topic 2

Patterson states he does not mean for his book to be a study of the intellectual study of freedom, but the historical development of freedom a a social value.

Part 1) Why is this his purpose?

Part 2) Based on this book, what might be the author's thoughts on the social value of freedom? Why?

Part 3) Why must the study of the intellectual study of freedom naturally be a part of this book, even though it is not what the author intended?

Essay Topic 3

Inner freedom is brought about by Greek religion.

Part 1) What is inner freedom? How is it brought about by Greek religion?

Part 2) Could it be brought about in any other way? Why or why not?

Part 3) How do societies today reveal a desire for inner freedom? What is the connection between the Greeks' belief in inner freedom and ours?

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