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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. Who asked the Oracle at Delphi about Socrates?
(a) Plato.
(b) Meletus.
(c) Chaerephon.
(d) Xenophon.

2. What are the main charges against Socrates?
(a) Revolutionary writings, murder of three men, and sacrificing too little to the gods.
(b) Freeing prisoners from jail, disrespecting the State in public, and theft of money.
(c) Treason against the State, kidnapping of a princess, and defiling a temple.
(d) Not recognizing the gods of the State, introducing new deities, and corrupting the young.

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

4. What does the editor emphasize should not prevent you from using worldly goods?
(a) The amount of money you have.
(b) The virtue of self-discipline.
(c) The government.
(d) The thoughts of other people.

5. What did Critias and Alcibiades control while under Socrates tutelage?
(a) Their natural vices.
(b) All the wealth in Athens.
(c) Socrates' finances.
(d) The fate of all of Greece.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whom does Socrates claim people should listen to if they are sick?

2. What does Socrates teach Crito in subsection 9?

3. What did the gods oppose Socrates doing in his own view?

4. How does Socrates view suffering through free action?

5. Why does the Editor present Socrates Defense first?

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