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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the Oracle of Delphi have to say about Socrates?
(a) He was the most free and most prudent of all people.
(b) He needed to be silenced.
(c) He was not to be trusted.
(d) The Oracle thought he was foolish.

2. Socrates claims he is not a slave to __________.
(a) His bodily desires.
(b) The wages of death.
(c) Any religion.
(d) The government.

3. What is Xenophon confused by in the first subsection of Book 1?
(a) The accusation that Socrates is guilty of the charges.
(b) The military presence surrounding Socrates.
(c) The meaning Socrates is trying to convey.
(d) The importance of Socrates' trial.

4. What does Socrates emphasize about the outcome of the trial?
(a) The fates would protect him.
(b) Everyone dies eventually.
(c) It was never a fair trial.
(d) He wished to become a martyr.

5. According to Xenophon, who are examples of good men Socrates has taught?
(a) Pericles and Meletus.
(b) Crito and Cebes.
(c) Critias and Alcibiades.
(d) Plato and himself.

Short Answer Questions

1. At the start of subsection 3, whom does Socrates advise according to Xenophon?

2. What does Xenophon report he overheard Socrates telling a friend?

3. How does Xenophon end his discussion in subsection 10?

4. What does Xenophon discuss with Critobulus in Subsection 6?

5. What does Xenophon argue that Socrates has never done?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is Memoirs of Socrates hard to date? What does the editor believe about the validity of the piece?

2. Describe the conversation between Pericles and Alcibiades in subsection 2 of Chapter 2, Book 1.

3. What does Socrates say in response to the charge of corrupting the young?

4. In subsection 4 of Chapter 2, Book 1, how did Socrates motivate people to start being good?

5. How does Xenophon feel about the accusation that Socrates turned his students against their parents? How does he feel Athens should have felt about Socrates?

6. How does Socrates' conversation with Antiphon serve to demonstrate that Socrates loved virtue?

7. What were the main charges that Socrates was accused of at his trial?

8. What does Xenophon note at the opening of Socrates' defense, and whom does he cite as an important source of information?

9. In subsection 1 of Chapter 2, Book 1, what does Xenophon say about Socrates in defense of the charges that he worshiped different gods than the state and introduced new deities?

10. What does Socrates tell his oldest son when Lamprodes is angry with his mother Xanthippe?

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