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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Socrates say is the best defense he could have?
(a) Having done nothing wrong.
(b) His cunning and wit.
(c) His fists.
(d) A pocketful of money.

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

3. What did Socrates not encourage his students to do?
(a) Join the military.
(b) Read other teachings besides his.
(c) Become tyrants.
(d) Pay taxes.

4. What additional virtue is Socrates credited with having?
(a) The ability to perform magic.
(b) The virtue of silence.
(c) The ability to teach others.
(d) He is a brilliant alchemist.

5. Socrates believes Lamprocles has ample reason to be grateful to _____________.
(a) The dead.
(b) Xanthippe.
(c) The gods.
(d) His employer.

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

7. What are the standards of virtue as seen by Socrates?
(a) Patience is the only virtue according to Socrates.
(b) Time management and athletic ability.
(c) Wealth and slave owning.
(d) Wisdom, justice, self-control, and piety.

8. How did Socrates benefit his associates and friends?
(a) Through example and conversation.
(b) He gave them money.
(c) He amused them.
(d) He protected them with military power.

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

10. What makes the Memoirs of Socrates hard to date?
(a) The document is in pieces.
(b) Socrates himself denounced the writings.
(c) It is written with horrible grammar.
(d) The conversations are poorly organized.

11. What does the editor emphasize should not prevent you from using worldly goods?
(a) The virtue of self-discipline.
(b) The thoughts of other people.
(c) The government.
(d) The amount of money you have.

12. Who asked the Oracle at Delphi about Socrates?
(a) Plato.
(b) Xenophon.
(c) Meletus.
(d) Chaerephon.

13. What does Socrates teach Crito in subsection 9?
(a) How to find refuge from social interaction.
(b) How to sing.
(c) A new recipe for wine.
(d) How to escape from prison.

14. What does Socrates argue no one has done because of him?
(a) Died.
(b) Deserted the army.
(c) Stopped worshiping the gods.
(d) Committed treason.

15. What does Xenophon argue that Socrates has never done?
(a) Listened to others.
(b) Uttered a heretical word.
(c) Sacrificed to the gods.
(d) Obeyed laws.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Socrates believe about the gods that led to his great respect for them?

2. What does Socrates tell Critobulus should be valued above all else?

3. What does Socrates say should not be avoided completely on the path of liberty?

4. What does Socrates claim he bears none of although his opponents do?

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

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