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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. What does Socrates believe the Athenians should do?
(a) Recover their ancestral forms of life.
(b) Relocate the city.
(c) Go on the offensive.
(d) Repent of their sins.

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

3. What does Aristippus try to trap Socrates into claiming?
(a) Evil is the only true good.
(b) He is a god.
(c) Something conditionally good is unqualified good.
(d) He should be a general.

4. How does Socrates teach his associates they should act in respect to food, drink, sex, and sleep?
(a) They should live to excess.
(b) They should be self-disciplined.
(c) They should fear them.
(d) They should disregard these vices as unnecessary.

5. What does Socrates say should not be avoided completely on the path of liberty?
(a) Violence.
(b) Confrontation.
(c) Reverence to the government.
(d) The passions and vices one has.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Plato compare to Xenophon as a philosopher?

2. Whom was Callias strongly attracted to in Chapter 3?

3. What does Socrates question Theodote about?

4. What are the standards of virtue as seen by Socrates?

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

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