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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. How does Xenophon end his discussion in subsection 10?
(a) By questioning his own authority.
(b) By condemning Socrates as a heretic.
(c) By allowing Socrates to leave.
(d) By recounting a discussion between Socrates and Diodorus.

2. Whom is Lamprocles becoming angry with that causes Socrates to teach him?
(a) The gods.
(b) His mother.
(c) His brother.
(d) The government.

3. What does Socrates say is the best defense he could have?
(a) His fists.
(b) A pocketful of money.
(c) His cunning and wit.
(d) Having done nothing wrong.

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

5. What had Socrates decided that made him appear arrogant, according to Xenophon?
(a) He was far superior to everyone there.
(b) He could outwit Xenophon.
(c) Death was better than life.
(d) He could bribe his way out of the trial.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the main charges against Socrates?

2. What does Xenophon argue the city of Athens should do to Socrates?

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

4. What does Meletus claim Socrates caused the youth to do?

5. What does Xenophon argue that Socrates has never done?

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