View a FREE sample

This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Socrates tell Euthydemus about people without self-discipline?

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

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

4. Socrates reasons the world was designed for ______________.

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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. How did Socrates improve his associates through philosophical discussion?

7. 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?

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How is the time and place he lived reflected in Socrates' beliefs?

Essay Topic 2

Who is Ischomachus, and why does Socrates feel he reflects the ideal of the truly good man?

Essay Topic 3

How does the third person point-of-view enhance and inhibit the story? How would this book be different if a different point of view were used?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 752 words (approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample