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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. How does Xenophon claim Socrates reacted to authority?
(a) He was the authority.
(b) He disregarded it.
(c) He obeyed it.
(d) He openly rebelled against it.

2. Why did Euthydemus remove himself from the group according to Socrates?
(a) To avoid embarrassment and learning.
(b) To gain a different perspective.
(c) To repent of his sins.
(d) To follow a different philosophy.

3. What did Socrates do as President of the Assembly?
(a) He barred illegal motions.
(b) Extorted the wealthy.
(c) He accepted bribes.
(d) Bullied others in the Assembly.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Socrates say is part of the job of a good general?

2. How does Socrates teach people with good ambitions according to Xenophon in Book 3?

3. Socrates argues the gods are concerned with ____________.

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

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Socrates improve his associates through philosophical discussion?

2. Describe the conversation about beauty between Socrates and Critobulus in Chapter 3, subsection 5.

3. How does Xenophon justify his claim that Socrates was so devout that he did nothing without divine sanction?

4. How do the men at the dinner party react to seeing the passionate kissing between Ariadne and Dionysus?

5. What does Socrates say about eating in subsection 14 of Chapter 2, Book 3?

6. What did Socrates tell Euthydemus about the nature of religiosity in subsection 6 of Chapter 2, Book 4?

7. Why is Socrates proud and how does he defend his claim?

8. What do the men at the dinner party claim as the reasons for their pride, and what happens when the men discuss the value of what each man claims to possess?

9. Why does Euthydemus think himself wise, and what does Socrates conclude after conversing with him?

10. Describe Socrates conversation with Pericles in the fifth subsection of Chapter 2, Book 3.

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