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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. Where does Socrates explain to Critobulus you can find beauty?
(a) In simple farming.
(b) In many things as well as people.
(c) In death.
(d) In no one.

2. Whom was Callias strongly attracted to in Chapter 3?
(a) The wife of his best friend.
(b) A ghost.
(c) The boy Autolycus.
(d) His own mother.

3. What does Hermogenes say drunkenness is in subsection six?
(a) The best way to live life.
(b) Man's only solace.
(c) A horrific crime.
(d) Annoying one's companions.

4. What had Socrates decided that made him appear arrogant, according to Xenophon?
(a) He was far superior to everyone there.
(b) Death was better than life.
(c) He could outwit Xenophon.
(d) He could bribe his way out of the trial.

5. What are you compelled to do if you admire the goodness of another according to Socrates?
(a) Act well to preserve the beloved's goodness.
(b) Repent your sins.
(c) Act violently towards others.
(d) Question their motives.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whom does Socrates describe as soft?

2. How does Charmides act around the weakest of people according to Socrates?

3. What is Socrates' disposition as he is being led away?

4. What did Socrates do to make his friends more efficient?

5. What does Socrates discuss with Charmides at the start of subsection 7?

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