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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3, The Dinner-Party.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Socrates feel about Pericles (the younger)?
(a) He would like to kill him.
(b) He can't stand him.
(c) He believes him to be the most pious of all people.
(d) He has high hopes for his generalship.

2. What is Xenophon confused by in the first subsection of Book 1?
(a) The importance of Socrates' trial.
(b) The meaning Socrates is trying to convey.
(c) The accusation that Socrates is guilty of the charges.
(d) The military presence surrounding Socrates.

3. What is free action according to the editor?
(a) An unattainable goal.
(b) Action done recklessly and quickly.
(c) Action that leads to free money.
(d) Action that chooses good and is not hampered by vice.

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

5. How does Socrates argue one can modify someone else's behavior?
(a) By force.
(b) By providing behavior incentives.
(c) By ignoring them until they change.
(d) By deserting them.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Socrates say should not be avoided completely on the path of liberty?

2. Where does Chapter 3 take place?

3. What does Socrates believe you must do to be a good democratic administrator?

4. What does Socrates argue no one has done because of him?

5. Whom does Socrates have a discussion with about right conduct in subsection 4?

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