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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. Socrates claims he is not a slave to __________.
(a) Any religion.
(b) His bodily desires.
(c) The government.
(d) The wages of death.

2. How did Critias and Alcibiades do great damage to Athens?
(a) They started a fire.
(b) Committing treason.
(c) As oligarchs.
(d) Releasing animals from their cages.

3. What does Socrates teach Crito in subsection 9?
(a) How to sing.
(b) How to find refuge from social interaction.
(c) How to escape from prison.
(d) A new recipe for wine.

4. What does the editor believe about the validity of the writings?
(a) The writings are a hoax.
(b) They are meant to be laughed at.
(c) The writings are quasi-fictional.
(d) They are completely accurate.

5. What does Socrates cite for the court to hear?
(a) The words the god spoke to him.
(b) His virtues.
(c) The laws of Greece.
(d) His religious beliefs.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the general point of Book 2?

2. How does Xenophon divide the Memoirs of Socrates?

3. What does the author point out about his Socratic writings in Chapter 1?

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

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

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