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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What features do not fade according to Socrates?
(a) Those we alter.
(b) Those which come from loving a person's mind.
(c) Those we do not have.
(d) Those which we do not use.

3. What does Socrates believe the Athenians should do?
(a) Repent of their sins.
(b) Go on the offensive.
(c) Relocate the city.
(d) Recover their ancestral forms of life.

4. How does Socrates feel about Pericles (the younger)?
(a) He can't stand him.
(b) He has high hopes for his generalship.
(c) He would like to kill him.
(d) He believes him to be the most pious of all people.

5. What does Aristippus try to trap Socrates into claiming?
(a) Evil is the only true good.
(b) He is a god.
(c) He should be a general.
(d) Something conditionally good is unqualified good.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Xenophon believe Socrates thought about all virtues?

2. Charmides claims the combination of young beauty and music make him think of _____________.

3. How does Socrates defend his claim of pride in his ability as a pimp?

4. How do the books show Socrates delivering his message to people?

5. What is the main theme compared to in Chapter 2?

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