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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 Xenophon note about Socrates' prophecy?
(a) He does not believe him.
(b) The outcome is yet unknown.
(c) The time it was made.
(d) He was right.

2. What does Socrates emphasize about the outcome of the trial?
(a) The fates would protect him.
(b) It was never a fair trial.
(c) Everyone dies eventually.
(d) He wished to become a martyr.

3. What does the Oracle of Delphi have to say about Socrates?
(a) He needed to be silenced.
(b) He was not to be trusted.
(c) He was the most free and most prudent of all people.
(d) The Oracle thought he was foolish.

4. What does Xenophon discuss with Critobulus in Subsection 6?
(a) The fate of Socrates.
(b) How one should acquire friends.
(c) His fear of death.
(d) A book he had read.

5. What does Socrates tell Critobulus should be valued above all else?
(a) Power.
(b) Wealth.
(c) Intelligence.
(d) Good friends.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Book 2 show Socrates did?

3. What does Xenophon argue Socrates could not lead people to do?

4. How does Xenophon divide the Memoirs of Socrates?

5. What were Socrates' friends doing that mystified him?

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