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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 does Meletus claim Socrates caused the youth to do?
(a) Rebel against the government.
(b) Listen to him and not their parents.
(c) End their own lives.
(d) Destroy holy relics.

2. What are the standards of virtue as seen by Socrates?
(a) Patience is the only virtue according to Socrates.
(b) Wisdom, justice, self-control, and piety.
(c) Time management and athletic ability.
(d) Wealth and slave owning.

3. How does Socrates teach his associates they should act in respect to food, drink, sex, and sleep?
(a) They should disregard these vices as unnecessary.
(b) They should live to excess.
(c) They should be self-disciplined.
(d) They should fear them.

4. What does Socrates tell Critobulus he should do to deserve good people in his life?
(a) Sacrifice himself to the gods.
(b) Buy his friends.
(c) Make himself a good man.
(d) Ignore the views of the government.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Socrates not encourage his students to do?

2. What does Socrates argue no one has done because of him?

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

4. Socrates believes Lamprocles has ample reason to be grateful to _____________.

5. Whom does Socrates reference when illustrating his beliefs on suffering?

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