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

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

3. Whom does Socrates claim makes what is right into what is lawful?
(a) The teachers.
(b) The gods.
(c) The people.
(d) The Assembly.

4. How does Xenophon feel about spending time with Socrates?
(a) He wishes to be elsewhere.
(b) He feels it is always a service.
(c) He loathes it.
(d) He feels it is a privilege.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Socrates do as President of the Assembly?

2. What does Hermogenes delight in?

3. Why did Dionysodorous come to Athens in Book 3?

4. What does Socrates do to Euthydemus to convince him he needs to be wiser?

5. How did Socrates teach about morality and piety according to Xenophon?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Socrates claim his friends need to learn responsibility before any other virtue?

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

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

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

5. How does Xenophon demonstrate that Socrates displayed his conception of morality and piety by following it in the fourth subsection of Chapter 2, Book 4?

6. What does Socrates learn about Theodote in Chapter 2, Book 3, Subsection 11, and how does he instruct her?

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

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

9. Why does Socrates tell Epigenes that he should be concerned about being in poor physical condition?

10. In the first subsection of Chapter 2, Book 4, what does Xenophon claim about spending time with Socrates?

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