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

2. How does Socrates feel about Pericles (the younger)?
(a) He would like to kill him.
(b) He can't stand him.
(c) He has high hopes for his generalship.
(d) He believes him to be the most pious of all people.

3. How does Xenophon claim Socrates meet his death?
(a) As a noble man.
(b) As a cowardly man.
(c) As a repentant man.
(d) As a foolish man.

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

5. Socrates wanted his friends to be well-informed on ___________.
(a) The gods.
(b) His teachings.
(c) Military strategy.
(d) Many various subjects.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whom does Socrates wish to help in his conversation with Aristippus in subsection 8?

2. Who comes to entertain the men at Callias' dinner?

3. What does Socrates believe is part of living a well-ordered life?

4. How does Xenophon feel about spending time with Socrates?

5. What does Socrates claim all of the men should demonstrate?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Socrates tell Charmides about his use of his administrative abilities?

3. 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?

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

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

6. 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?

7. What does Socrates claim about the difference between physical love and love of the mind in Chapter 3?

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

9. What is Socrates' opinion of how courage is acquired?

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

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