Freedom Test | Mid-Book Test - Hard

Orlando Patterson
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 135 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

Freedom Test | Mid-Book Test - Hard

Orlando Patterson
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 135 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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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. How do societies everywhere regard the inception of freedom as a value?

2. For whom are the plays?

3. There is a shift in agricultural production away from what into the production of olives, figs, fruits, etc.?

4. Again what does Patterson use to support this point?

5. What does this chapter examine?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are Patterson's three components of freedom?

2. What does this chapter describe?

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

4. The contemporaneous development of slavery and the concept of freedom characterize ancient Athens and Greece. How does Patterson again use Greek drama to support this point?

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

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

7. What does the Peloponnesian War do to Athens and Greece?

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

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

10. What is a third revolution?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The Western concept of freedom arises from slavery is the basis for the greatness of Western civilization.

Part 1) What is the role of slavery in the development of freedom?

Part 2) Why is it important that slavery have a role in the Western world's concept of freedom?

Part 3) Could our concept of freedom have existed without slavery? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 2

Freedom was not always practical for a slave.

Part 1) Why would it not be practical? What would be needed for a slave to be freed and to survive?

Part 2) With this in mind, how is it possible that a large majority of countries no longer practice slavery?

Part 3) Does slavery exist today? Where? In what forms? To what or whom are people enslaved?

Essay Topic 3

By medieval times, Europe makes the transition from slavery to serfdom.

Part 1) Compare slavery to serfdom. Why does the end of the Roman Empire not end slavery?

Part 2) Why do historians down play the role of freedom during this period of time?

Part 3) Who controls freedom at this time? How do people at this time think of freedom? Why?

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