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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2, Memoirs of Socrates, Book Three.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are the main charges against Socrates?
(a) Freeing prisoners from jail, disrespecting the State in public, and theft of money.
(b) Treason against the State, kidnapping of a princess, and defiling a temple.
(c) Revolutionary writings, murder of three men, and sacrificing too little to the gods.
(d) Not recognizing the gods of the State, introducing new deities, and corrupting the young.

2. In the second subsection of Book 1, what does Xenophon deny Socrates has done?
(a) Spoke to the gods.
(b) Bribed him for protection.
(c) Met the Oracle of Delphi.
(d) Had a negative effect on the youth.

3. How does Socrates teach people with good ambitions according to Xenophon in Book 3?
(a) He tells them jokes.
(b) He teaches them to apply themselves.
(c) He tells them a story of the devil.
(d) He lectures them constantly.

4. What does Socrates try and convince Dionysodorous of in Book 3?
(a) He should have a more expansive view of his job.
(b) He is meant to lead a revolt.
(c) There is a plot against his life.
(d) There is no God.

5. What does Plato think of Socrates' defense at the trial?
(a) He has an arrogant tone.
(b) It is based on falsehoods.
(c) It echoes his own thoughts.
(d) It is utter nonsense.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Crito able to use to his advantage in subsection 9?

2. How did Socrates benefit his associates and friends?

3. How does Socrates feel about Pericles (the younger)?

4. What does Meletus claim Socrates caused the youth to do?

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

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