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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 Socrates view suffering through free action?
(a) It is better to suffer with others.
(b) It is better than involuntary suffering.
(c) It is inevitable.
(d) You should inflict suffering on others to counteract it.

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

3. What forced the jurors to condemn Socrates, according to Xenophon?
(a) The gods.
(b) Government influence.
(c) Socrates' arrogance.
(d) Socrates' appearance.

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

5. Socrates believes Lamprocles has ample reason to be grateful to _____________.
(a) His employer.
(b) The gods.
(c) Xanthippe.
(d) The dead.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In the second subsection of Book 1, what does Xenophon deny Socrates has done?

3. What is the problem with the refugees Aristarchus is housing?

4. Who is Hermogenes' father?

5. Who asked the Oracle at Delphi about Socrates?

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