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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2, Memoirs of Socrates, Book II.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Book 2 show Socrates did?
(a) Promote civil unrest.
(b) Commit blasphemy against the gods.
(c) Encourage people to be violent.
(d) Encourage his friends to be good.

2. How does Socrates teach his associates they should act in respect to food, drink, sex, and sleep?
(a) They should live to excess.
(b) They should be self-disciplined.
(c) They should disregard these vices as unnecessary.
(d) They should fear them.

3. Why does the Editor present Socrates Defense first?
(a) He believes it will catch the reader's attention.
(b) He did not place it there; it is at the end.
(c) He thought it was too long to be at the end.
(d) He believes it is Xenophon's first Socratic dialogue.

4. What is Crito able to use to his advantage in subsection 9?
(a) His friendship with Archedemus.
(b) His telepathic powers.
(c) His extreme strength.
(d) His social status.

5. What is the general point of Book 2?
(a) To show Socrates did not corrupt his friends.
(b) To show Socrates as a deity.
(c) To show the weaknesses in Socrates' logic.
(d) To show how Socrates could not be trusted.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Xenophon argue the city of Athens should do to Socrates?

2. What does the author point out about his Socratic writings in Chapter 1?

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

4. At the start of subsection 7, what does Xenophon relate Socrates has done for his friends?

5. What is the main theme of the Memoirs?

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