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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are the standards of virtue as seen by Socrates?
(a) Patience is the only virtue according to Socrates.
(b) Wealth and slave owning.
(c) Time management and athletic ability.
(d) Wisdom, justice, self-control, and piety.

2. Ultimately, what is Socrates' Defense?
(a) A pamphlet as opposed to a book.
(b) A testament to hard work.
(c) A guide to life.
(d) A work of religious greatness.

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

4. What did Critias and Alcibiades control while under Socrates tutelage?
(a) Socrates' finances.
(b) Their natural vices.
(c) The fate of all of Greece.
(d) All the wealth in Athens.

5. What does Xenophon argue that Socrates has never done?
(a) Sacrificed to the gods.
(b) Uttered a heretical word.
(c) Obeyed laws.
(d) Listened to others.

Short Answer Questions

1. What behavior of Critias and Alcibiades did Socrates not approve of?

2. What is Xenophon confused by in the first subsection of Book 1?

3. Why does Socrates believe he is rich when Antiphon questions his modest lifestyle?

4. What does Socrates claim he bears none of although his opponents do?

5. What does Socrates cite for the court to hear?

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