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

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

3. What is Socrates talking to Nicomachides about at the start of subsection 4?
(a) The state of politics.
(b) His dying wish.
(c) Who the people appointed for a general.
(d) The unfairness of slavery.

4. According to Socrates, what happens to physical love as we age?
(a) It grows stronger.
(b) We understand it better.
(c) It controls us.
(d) We lose it.

5. Socrates argues the gods are concerned with ____________.
(a) Human welfare.
(b) Power and might.
(c) Their own splendor.
(d) The government.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. According to Socrates, what is one way to learn what is right?

3. What was Niceratus proud he could do?

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

5. How does Xenophon believe Socrates thought about all virtues?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

2. What do the men at the dinner party do in the sixth and seventh subsections of Chapter 3?

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

4. How does Socrates try to convince Nicomachides that Antisthenes can succeed as a general?

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

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

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

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

9. How does the dinner party of Chapter 3 come to be?

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

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