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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 question Theodote about?
(a) Her religious practices.
(b) Her thoughts on marriage.
(c) Her allegiance to Greece.
(d) How she finds friends.

2. At the start of subsection 3, whom does Socrates advise according to Xenophon?
(a) The Oracle of Delphi.
(b) Plato.
(c) His nieces and nephews.
(d) Two brothers, Chaerephon and Chaerecrates.

3. Why did Euthydemus remove himself from the group according to Socrates?
(a) To avoid embarrassment and learning.
(b) To follow a different philosophy.
(c) To repent of his sins.
(d) To gain a different perspective.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Xenophon discuss with Critobulus in Subsection 6?

2. At the start of subsection 7, what does Xenophon relate Socrates has done for his friends?

3. What does the editor believe about the validity of the writings?

4. What does Socrates do to help people avoid mistakes and to teach others?

5. What does Socrates praise in a homily to show that he loved virtue?

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