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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 focus on instead of what is good generally, at the close of Subsection 8?
(a) He focuses on the good he has done.
(b) He focuses on his godly nature.
(c) He focuses on what things are good for what purpose.
(d) He focuses on the evils of his fellow man.

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

3. How does Socrates argue one can modify someone else's behavior?
(a) By ignoring them until they change.
(b) By deserting them.
(c) By force.
(d) By providing behavior incentives.

4. What is Xenophon confused by in the first subsection of Book 1?
(a) The meaning Socrates is trying to convey.
(b) The military presence surrounding Socrates.
(c) The accusation that Socrates is guilty of the charges.
(d) The importance of Socrates' trial.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Whom does Socrates wish to help in his conversation with Aristippus in subsection 8?

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

3. What is Socrates' view on democracy?

4. What does Socrates cite for the court to hear?

5. What is Xenophon explaining at the onset of subsection 4?

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