Freedom Test | Mid-Book Test - Hard

Orlando Patterson
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Short Answer Questions

1. To what does this lead?

2. Athens experiences how many results from the transition to a slave economy?

3. What does it mean to be Greek?

4. The financial welfare of the slaveholder is now becoming dependent on what?

5. The occupation makes the Greeks think about what issues?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. 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?

3. What does Plato say about the soul?

4. What role does slavery play in this conflict?

5. What is a third revolution?

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

7. Why are foreign slaves brought into the country?

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

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

10. Describe the Oedipus trilogy of Sophocles in relation to freedom.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

Augustus sets the pace for the interpretations of freedom that will define the European chordal triad for the next 1,500 years.

Part 1) Who is Augustus? How does he set the pace?

Part 2) Why is he so influential? What power does he have over the region?

Part 3) How does Augustus change his persona for his people? Why does he do this?

Essay Topic 3

Three schools exist among Hellenistic thinkers.

Part 1) Who are Hellenistic thinkers? What are the three schools?

Part 2) How did these schools come about? What is the significance of these three schools?

Part 3) How have these schools been used and altered by various societies after the Hellenistic Period?

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