View a FREE sample

This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3, The Dinner-Party.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Socrates claim all of the men should demonstrate?
(a) The value of what they claim to possess.
(b) Their devotion to Greece.
(c) Their athletic prowess.
(d) Their piety.

2. What does Socrates question Theodote about?
(a) Her religious practices.
(b) Her allegiance to Greece.
(c) Her thoughts on marriage.
(d) How she finds friends.

3. What is the main theme of the Memoirs?
(a) Its not what you know; it's who you know.
(b) The ideal of the true good.
(c) Socrates is always correct.
(d) God does not exist.

4. What event was Xenophon hosting a party to celebrate in Chapter 3?
(a) His recent favors from the gods.
(b) A victorious battle by soldiers.
(c) His election to the Senate .
(d) Autolycus' victory in the pancration.

5. What does Socrates believe the Athenians should do?
(a) Relocate the city.
(b) Repent of their sins.
(c) Recover their ancestral forms of life.
(d) Go on the offensive.

Short Answer Questions

1. What makes the Memoirs of Socrates hard to date?

2. What does Socrates discuss with Charmides at the start of subsection 7?

3. Whom was Callias strongly attracted to in Chapter 3?

4. What are the standards of virtue as seen by Socrates?

5. What does Lycon tell Socrates as he is leaving after the discussion?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 290 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample