View a FREE sample

This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3, The Dinner-Party.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What event does Xenophon describe to begin his story?
(a) The horse race at the Great Panathenaic Festival.
(b) A funeral for his father.
(c) A great flood.
(d) A marriage he attended.

2. Charmides claims the combination of young beauty and music make him think of _____________.
(a) Home.
(b) Love.
(c) Youth.
(d) The gods.

3. What does Socrates discuss with Charmides at the start of subsection 7?
(a) How to become wealthy.
(b) How to win in athletic competitions.
(c) Crimes of passion.
(d) Their plans to take over the world.

4. Where does Chapter 3 take place?
(a) A shrine to the gods.
(b) An Athenian dinner party.
(c) Socrates' grave.
(d) An abandoned temple.

5. What does Xenophon argue that Socrates has never done?
(a) Listened to others.
(b) Uttered a heretical word.
(c) Obeyed laws.
(d) Sacrificed to the gods.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Xenophon reveal to us about Theodote in subsection 11?

2. In the second subsection of Book 1, what does Xenophon deny Socrates has done?

3. What did Critias and Alcibiades control while under Socrates tutelage?

4. Socrates claims that having physical love is no indication of ______________.

5. What is the main theme of the Memoirs?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 263 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample