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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2, Memoirs of Socrates, Book II.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Xenophon explaining at the onset of subsection 4?
(a) An argument he had with Plato.
(b) Socrates' views on friendship.
(c) His role in the trial of Socrates.
(d) Reasons to execute Socrates.

2. Ultimately, what is Socrates' Defense?
(a) A pamphlet as opposed to a book.
(b) A guide to life.
(c) A work of religious greatness.
(d) A testament to hard work.

3. What does Socrates believe most people undervalue?
(a) A hard day's work.
(b) Religion.
(c) Their friends.
(d) Their civic duty.

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

5. 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 disregard these vices as unnecessary.
(d) They should fear them.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whom does Socrates have a conversation with that illustrates his belief on self-discipline?

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

3. What is the main theme of the Memoirs?

4. What does Plato think of Socrates' defense at the trial?

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

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