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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 does Hermogenes claim could be the outcome of the trial?
(a) Socrates could be convicted.
(b) Socrates could be guilty of something else.
(c) A hopeless deadlock among the jurors.
(d) Socrates could confess despite his innocence.

2. What is Socrates' view on democracy?
(a) He had never heard of it.
(b) He thought it the best way to run a country.
(c) He thought it needed to be implemented instantly.
(d) He found it silly.

3. Whom does Socrates claim people should listen to if they are sick?
(a) A doctor.
(b) Their parents.
(c) No one.
(d) The gods.

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

5. What did Socrates prophesy about in Chapter 1?
(a) Anytus' future.
(b) A victory in battle.
(c) The fall of Greece.
(d) His own fate.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Socrates say is the best defense he could have?

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

3. What did Socrates encourage people to do?

4. In the second subsection of Book 1, what does Xenophon deny Socrates has done?

5. What forced the jurors to condemn Socrates, according to Xenophon?

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