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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did the bachelors vow to do after seeing the couple's passionate kissing?
(a) To join the military.
(b) To avoid love at all costs.
(c) To become celibate.
(d) To get married.

2. What is free action according to the editor?
(a) Action that chooses good and is not hampered by vice.
(b) An unattainable goal.
(c) Action done recklessly and quickly.
(d) Action that leads to free money.

3. Where does Socrates explain to Critobulus you can find beauty?
(a) In no one.
(b) In simple farming.
(c) In death.
(d) In many things as well as people.

4. What does Aristippus try to trap Socrates into claiming?
(a) Something conditionally good is unqualified good.
(b) He is a god.
(c) He should be a general.
(d) Evil is the only true good.

5. Whom does Socrates describe as soft?
(a) The soldiers of Greece.
(b) Those that do not use their talents to serve their country.
(c) Charmides' children.
(d) The police force in Athens.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Xenophon divide the Memoirs of Socrates?

2. What additional virtue is Socrates credited with having?

3. What is Socrates' view on democracy?

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

5. When in his life is Xenophon reported to have written the memoirs?

(see the answer key)

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