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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. How does Xenophon end his discussion in subsection 10?
(a) By recounting a discussion between Socrates and Diodorus.
(b) By questioning his own authority.
(c) By allowing Socrates to leave.
(d) By condemning Socrates as a heretic.

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

3. What does the author point out about his Socratic writings in Chapter 1?
(a) He plagiarized large portions of it.
(b) They are meant to slander Socrates.
(c) They are not his best work.
(d) They were written with the express purpose of defending Socrates.

4. How does Socrates view suffering through free action?
(a) It is better than involuntary suffering.
(b) You should inflict suffering on others to counteract it.
(c) It is inevitable.
(d) It is better to suffer with others.

5. Whom does Socrates wish to help in his conversation with Aristippus in subsection 8?
(a) Those listening to the conversation.
(b) The children of Aristippus.
(c) Himself.
(d) Aristippus.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Hermogenes' father?

2. How did Socrates benefit his associates and friends?

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

4. What did Meletus see Socrates doing?

5. What does Socrates believe is part of living a well-ordered life?

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