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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Socrates conclude about the terms right and lawful?
(a) They have the same meaning.
(b) They have no relation to real life.
(c) They are opposites.
(d) He does not understand them.

2. What does Xenophon reveal to us about Theodote in subsection 11?
(a) She is very wealthy.
(b) She consorts with anyone persuasive.
(c) She is a beacon of prudence.
(d) She is in love with him.

3. What did the bachelors vow to do after seeing the couple's passionate kissing?
(a) To join the military.
(b) To avoid love at all costs.
(c) To become celibate.
(d) To get married.

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

5. Socrates reasons the world was designed for ______________.
(a) The good of man.
(b) His personal gain.
(c) Testing man's resilience.
(d) The strong and mighty.

6. How does Xenophon believe Socrates thought about all virtues?
(a) They are beyond human comprehension.
(b) They are a myth.
(c) He was above them.
(d) They are the same.

7. What features do not fade according to Socrates?
(a) Those we alter.
(b) Those which we do not use.
(c) Those we do not have.
(d) Those which come from loving a person's mind.

8. Whom does Socrates describe as soft?
(a) The police force in Athens.
(b) Those that do not use their talents to serve their country.
(c) The soldiers of Greece.
(d) Charmides' children.

9. Socrates claims that having physical love is no indication of ______________.
(a) Virtue of any kind.
(b) Your intelligence.
(c) Your general health.
(d) Your goals in life.

10. How does Socrates wish to speak of love in subsection eight?
(a) As a cruel joke.
(b) As a deity.
(c) As an unfair game.
(d) As a childish dream.

11. What does Socrates discuss with Charmides at the start of subsection 7?
(a) How to win in athletic competitions.
(b) Their plans to take over the world.
(c) Crimes of passion.
(d) How to become wealthy.

12. What made Euthydemus feel wise?
(a) He had a vision from the gods.
(b) He had made the decision to flee Greece.
(c) He had battlefield skills..
(d) He had read the writings of poets and sages.

13. How did Socrates teach about morality and piety according to Xenophon?
(a) By teaching and following it.
(b) With complicated metaphors.
(c) By setting an example of what not to do.
(d) By writing songs.

14. What does Socrates talk with Epigenes about in subsection 12?
(a) His poor physical condition.
(b) A job he has in mind for him.
(c) His snobby attitude.
(d) The afterlife.

15. What does Socrates believe is part of living a well-ordered life?
(a) A vow of silence.
(b) Staying awake.
(c) Good eating.
(d) Drinking to excess.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Socrates do to help Glaucon become a head of state?

2. What are you compelled to do if you admire the goodness of another according to Socrates?

3. What does Socrates believe the Athenians should do?

4. Socrates wanted his friends to be well-informed on ___________.

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

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