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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3, The Dinner-Party.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Whom was Callias strongly attracted to in Chapter 3?
(a) His own mother.
(b) The wife of his best friend.
(c) The boy Autolycus.
(d) A ghost.

2. What are the main themes of Chapter 3?
(a) The love affair of Xenophon.
(b) Socrates should be remembered as a god.
(c) Revolt is the only answer.
(d) The nature of love and Socrates' ideal true goodness.

3. Who does Alcibiades have a discussion with about the nature of law?
(a) Plato.
(b) Pericles.
(c) Socrates.
(d) Xenophon.

4. Why does the Editor present Socrates Defense first?
(a) He believes it will catch the reader's attention.
(b) He believes it is Xenophon's first Socratic dialogue.
(c) He thought it was too long to be at the end.
(d) He did not place it there; it is at the end.

5. Whom does Socrates claim people should listen to if they are sick?
(a) No one.
(b) The gods.
(c) A doctor.
(d) Their parents.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the standards of virtue as seen by Socrates?

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

3. In the second subsection of Book 1, what does Xenophon deny Socrates has done?

4. What does the author point out about his Socratic writings in Chapter 1?

5. What does Xenophon argue that Socrates has never done?

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