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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 was the person Socrates chided upset about?

2. Socrates reasons the world was designed for ______________.

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

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

5. What does Xenophon claim no one should believe about Socrates?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Describe Socrates conversation about self-discipline with Euthydemus.

5. 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?

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What role does religion play in "Conversations of Socrates"? Why is this important to the plot overall?

Essay Topic 2

Find two conversations that address the same topic in this collection. Compare and contrast these two anecdotes.

Essay Topic 3

How is the concept of the "true good" defined in Memoirs of Socrates, and how do the stories in this chapter reflect this idea?

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