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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 Socrates question Theodote about?
(a) Her religious practices.
(b) Her thoughts on marriage.
(c) How she finds friends.
(d) Her allegiance to Greece.

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

3. What was the person Socrates chided upset about?
(a) Someone who did not return his greeting.
(b) The infidelity of his wife.
(c) The failure of his crops.
(d) His place in life.

4. What is the general point of Book 2?
(a) To show the weaknesses in Socrates' logic.
(b) To show Socrates did not corrupt his friends.
(c) To show Socrates as a deity.
(d) To show how Socrates could not be trusted.

5. Whom does Socrates reference when illustrating his beliefs on suffering?
(a) He references Meletus.
(b) He references Xenophon.
(c) He references Plato.
(d) He references Heracles.

Short Answer Questions

1. What forced the jurors to condemn Socrates, according to Xenophon?

2. When in his life is Xenophon reported to have written the memoirs?

3. How does Plato compare to Xenophon as a philosopher?

4. How did Socrates teach about morality and piety according to Xenophon?

5. What does Critobulus worry about good men?

(see the answer key)

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