View a FREE sample

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

2. Why does the Editor present Socrates Defense first?
(a) He believes it is Xenophon's first Socratic dialogue.
(b) He believes it will catch the reader's attention.
(c) He thought it was too long to be at the end.
(d) He did not place it there; it is at the end.

3. Why does Socrates tell Aristodemus the gods deserve esteem?
(a) They had given men knowledge and a mind.
(b) It was the law to regard them with esteem.
(c) They made sure you had food.
(d) The gods told him personally.

4. In the second subsection of Book 1, what does Xenophon deny Socrates has done?
(a) Bribed him for protection.
(b) Had a negative effect on the youth.
(c) Met the Oracle of Delphi.
(d) Spoke to the gods.

5. What does Socrates teach Crito in subsection 9?
(a) How to find refuge from social interaction.
(b) How to escape from prison.
(c) How to sing.
(d) A new recipe for wine.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the main theme compared to in Chapter 2?

2. Whom does Socrates describe as soft?

3. Whom does Socrates wish to help in his conversation with Aristippus in subsection 8?

4. What does Socrates do to help Glaucon become a head of state?

5. According to Socrates, why was he not introducing new deities?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 318 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample