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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 did Socrates not encourage his students to do?
(a) Read other teachings besides his.
(b) Become tyrants.
(c) Pay taxes.
(d) Join the military.

2. What does Socrates praise in a homily to show that he loved virtue?
(a) The value of self-discipline.
(b) Money and power.
(c) The sunshine.
(d) The Greek government.

3. What does Xenophon discuss with Critobulus in Subsection 6?
(a) How one should acquire friends.
(b) A book he had read.
(c) His fear of death.
(d) The fate of Socrates.

4. What does Socrates cite for the court to hear?
(a) The words the god spoke to him.
(b) His religious beliefs.
(c) The laws of Greece.
(d) His virtues.

5. What does Meletus claim Socrates caused the youth to do?
(a) Destroy holy relics.
(b) Rebel against the government.
(c) Listen to him and not their parents.
(d) End their own lives.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Dionysodorous come to Athens in Book 3?

2. What does Xenophon note about Socrates' prophecy?

3. What is free action according to the editor?

4. Who asked the Oracle at Delphi about Socrates?

5. What does Socrates question Theodote about?

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