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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 does Socrates say is the best defense he could have?
(a) Having done nothing wrong.
(b) A pocketful of money.
(c) His cunning and wit.
(d) His fists.

2. What is Socrates talking to Nicomachides about at the start of subsection 4?
(a) Who the people appointed for a general.
(b) His dying wish.
(c) The unfairness of slavery.
(d) The state of politics.

3. Why does Socrates tell Aristodemus the gods deserve esteem?
(a) They made sure you had food.
(b) The gods told him personally.
(c) It was the law to regard them with esteem.
(d) They had given men knowledge and a mind.

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

5. How do the books show Socrates delivering his message to people?
(a) He delivers his message through song.
(b) He uses a series of paintings.
(c) He uses homilies to deliver his message.
(d) He writes people letters.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Socrates benefit his associates and friends?

2. What does Socrates say will allow Antisthenes to gain the needed capacities?

3. Subsection 8 shows Socrates interacting with ___________.

4. Socrates claims he is not a slave to __________.

5. What does the author point out about his Socratic writings in Chapter 1?

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