Freedman background test
If you can’t read it, it says the following:
Freedman Background Test
1). What is the Latin word for “freedman” and which character in the CLC book 4, is a freedman?
Freedmanus
2). What two Latin words sum up the new relationship between ex-slave and ex-master?
Exslavus and exmasterus
3). How did a slave’s name change when he became a freedman?
Gradually
4). What rights did a freedman have as a citizen?
He could compete in the daily pie eating contest
5). What limits were still imposed upon a freedman’s rights and privileges?
No more than three pheasants to a battery
6). What was the highest position a freedman could hope to attain?
Royal shoeshiner
7). Why might it have been worthwhile for a slave owner to manumit his slave?
Incase he choked on a pineapple
8). Give 2 reasons why it is not surprising that freedmen became rich and successful?
They knew how to grow money trees
9). What were the “servi Caesari” who worked as personal assistants to the emperor known as after they were freed?
Nutritionists
10). Why might freedmen have been bitterly resented?
They leak oil from their fingernails due to being crossbred with a honda at birth. they also randomly honked and gave off smoke
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