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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 is the main theme of the Memoirs?
(a) Socrates is always correct.
(b) God does not exist.
(c) The ideal of the true good.
(d) Its not what you know; it's who you know.

2. What are the main charges against Socrates?
(a) Treason against the State, kidnapping of a princess, and defiling a temple.
(b) Not recognizing the gods of the State, introducing new deities, and corrupting the young.
(c) Revolutionary writings, murder of three men, and sacrificing too little to the gods.
(d) Freeing prisoners from jail, disrespecting the State in public, and theft of money.

3. What did Socrates believe about the gods that led to his great respect for them?
(a) He was equal to them.
(b) They were omniscient.
(c) They spoke to him continuously.
(d) They protected him from harm.

4. What was the young man focused on that Socrates questions in book 3?
(a) Being popular.
(b) Becoming a Calvary officer.
(c) The letter of the law.
(d) Money.

5. How does Charmides act around the weakest of people according to Socrates?
(a) He is too shy.
(b) He speaks too loudly.
(c) He is too hard on them.
(d) He acts insane.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the problem with the refugees Aristarchus is housing?

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

4. What did Critias and Alcibiades control while under Socrates tutelage?

5. How does Xenophon claim Socrates reacted to authority?

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