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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does the author point out about his Socratic writings in Chapter 1?
2. Who asked the Oracle at Delphi about Socrates?
3. According to Socrates, what is his financial situation?
4. How does Socrates argue one can modify someone else's behavior?
5. What is Xenophon explaining at the onset of subsection 4?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why does the editor present Socrates' defense first in this collection of Socratic dialogues?
2. How does Socrates open his defense, and how does he refer to the Oracle of Delphi as part of his argument?
3. How did Socrates act out of public piety to show his students how to live good lives?
4. 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?
5. 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?
6. Describe the conversation between Pericles and Alcibiades in subsection 2 of Chapter 2, Book 1.
7. What does Socrates tell Cristobulus he should do in order to deserve good friends who are also good people?
8. How does Socrates help Aristarchus sort through ignorance and deficiencies?
9. What type of friends does Socrates tell Cristobulus that he should set to acquire?
10. According to Xenophon why was Socrates convicted, and how was his fate appropriate?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Choose one of the main themes in this book (charges against Socrates, Socrates' virtue, true good, love and responsibility) and detail its recurrences throughout the book. What does it add to the story? How does it affect the different individuals?
Essay Topic 2
How do the minor people in this book affect the plot? How would this book be different if one or more of these people were removed?
Essay Topic 3
How are the different symbols used throughout "Conversations of Socrates" to represent abstract concepts? Detail and explain how the symbols are used to describe certain abstract concepts and which concepts they describe.
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