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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2, Memoirs of Socrates, Book IV.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Socrates not encourage his students to do?
(a) Become tyrants.
(b) Join the military.
(c) Pay taxes.
(d) Read other teachings besides his.

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

3. At the start of subsection 3, whom does Socrates advise according to Xenophon?
(a) Two brothers, Chaerephon and Chaerecrates.
(b) Plato.
(c) The Oracle of Delphi.
(d) His nieces and nephews.

4. What does Socrates praise Euthydemus for in spite of previously chiding him?
(a) His tidy house.
(b) His interest in achieving wisdom.
(c) His cooking ability.
(d) His generous gift.

5. Whom does Socrates have a conversation with that illustrates his belief on self-discipline?
(a) The goddess Athena.
(b) Aristippus.
(c) Himself.
(d) The Greek god of war.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Socrates talking to Nicomachides about at the start of subsection 4?

2. What does Socrates conclude about the terms right and lawful?

3. What does Xenophon claim no one should believe about Socrates?

4. Ultimately, what is Socrates' Defense?

5. What makes the Memoirs of Socrates hard to date?

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