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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Socrates question Theodote about?
(a) Her thoughts on marriage.
(b) How she finds friends.
(c) Her allegiance to Greece.
(d) Her religious practices.

2. What does Socrates say is part of the job of a good general?
(a) Spreading the teachings of the gods.
(b) Sacrificing himself to curry favor from the gods.
(c) Securing the happiness of his followers.
(d) Merciless killing.

3. How does Hermogenes say he retains his friends?
(a) By feeding them.
(b) By praising them and returning their good works.
(c) By holding their money from them.
(d) By paying them.

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

5. What does Xenophon feel Socrates could do based on individual's needs?
(a) Adjust his aid accordingly.
(b) Make the person a formidable soldier.
(c) Predict the person's future.
(d) Instruct the person in the ways of the gods.

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

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

8. What was the person Socrates chided upset about?
(a) The infidelity of his wife.
(b) The failure of his crops.
(c) Someone who did not return his greeting.
(d) His place in life.

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

10. What does Socrates try and convince Dionysodorous of in Book 3?
(a) There is no God.
(b) He is meant to lead a revolt.
(c) He should have a more expansive view of his job.
(d) There is a plot against his life.

11. What does Hermogenes delight in?
(a) The stature he has attained.
(b) Military victory.
(c) The goodness and influence of his friends.
(d) The ruination of others.

12. Whom does Socrates wish to help in his conversation with Aristippus in subsection 8?
(a) Those listening to the conversation.
(b) The children of Aristippus.
(c) Himself.
(d) Aristippus.

13. How does Socrates defend his claim of pride in his ability as a pimp?
(a) He has the most influence.
(b) He has the largest following.
(c) He represents his clients pleasantly and speaks modestly.
(d) He speaks with the most bravado.

14. In subsection 10, Socrates talks to _____________to show he cares for their interests.
(a) Generals.
(b) Craftsmen.
(c) Teachers.
(d) Beggars.

15. What event was Xenophon hosting a party to celebrate in Chapter 3?
(a) His election to the Senate .
(b) Autolycus' victory in the pancration.
(c) His recent favors from the gods.
(d) A victorious battle by soldiers.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whom was Callias strongly attracted to in Chapter 3?

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

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

4. What does Xenophon reveal to us about Theodote in subsection 11?

5. Socrates argues the gods are concerned with ____________.

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