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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4, The Estate-Manager.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Socrates cite for the court to hear?
(a) The laws of Greece.
(b) His religious beliefs.
(c) The words the god spoke to him.
(d) His virtues.

2. What did the gods oppose Socrates doing in his own view?
(a) Showing humility.
(b) Dreaming.
(c) Working on his defense.
(d) Using force to defend himself.

3. What does Socrates claim all of the men should demonstrate?
(a) Their athletic prowess.
(b) Their devotion to Greece.
(c) Their piety.
(d) The value of what they claim to possess.

4. What does Socrates praise in a homily to show that he loved virtue?
(a) The sunshine.
(b) The Greek government.
(c) Money and power.
(d) The value of self-discipline.

5. At the start of subsection 3, whom does Socrates advise according to Xenophon?
(a) The Oracle of Delphi.
(b) His nieces and nephews.
(c) Two brothers, Chaerephon and Chaerecrates.
(d) Plato.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Hermogenes say drunkenness is in subsection six?

2. What does Critobulus worry about good men?

3. How does Socrates feel about Pericles (the younger)?

4. Whom does Socrates claim makes what is right into what is lawful?

5. What does Socrates believe you must do to be a good democratic administrator?

(see the answer key)

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