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

2. What did Meletus see Socrates doing?
(a) Eating on the holy day.
(b) Talking to spies.
(c) Sacrificing to the gods.
(d) Starting to escape.

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

4. What does Socrates tell Critobulus should be valued above all else?
(a) Intelligence.
(b) Wealth.
(c) Power.
(d) Good friends.

5. What is the general point of Book 2?
(a) To show Socrates as a deity.
(b) To show the weaknesses in Socrates' logic.
(c) To show how Socrates could not be trusted.
(d) To show Socrates did not corrupt his friends.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Socrates focus on instead of what is good generally, at the close of Subsection 8?

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

3. How does Socrates teach his associates they should act in respect to food, drink, sex, and sleep?

4. How does Charmides act around the weakest of people according to Socrates?

5. What does Socrates talk with Epigenes about in subsection 12?

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