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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 does Hermogenes claim could be the outcome of the trial?
(a) Socrates could confess despite his innocence.
(b) Socrates could be guilty of something else.
(c) A hopeless deadlock among the jurors.
(d) Socrates could be convicted.

2. How does Xenophon claim Socrates reacted to authority?
(a) He disregarded it.
(b) He was the authority.
(c) He openly rebelled against it.
(d) He obeyed it.

3. What makes the Memoirs of Socrates hard to date?
(a) It is written with horrible grammar.
(b) The conversations are poorly organized.
(c) Socrates himself denounced the writings.
(d) The document is in pieces.

4. According to Socrates,what has not corrupted the youth?
(a) His practice of virtue.
(b) The texts they have read.
(c) The government.
(d) The food they eat.

5. What did Socrates encourage people to do?
(a) Rebel against the government.
(b) Follow what they thought was right and develop their talents.
(c) Denounce false gods.
(d) Enjoy their worldly possessions.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Socrates do to help people avoid mistakes and to teach others?

2. How did Critias and Alcibiades do great damage to Athens?

3. What does Socrates praise in a homily to show that he loved virtue?

4. Socrates reasons the world was designed for ______________.

5. What does Socrates tell Euthydemus about people without self-discipline?

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