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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. Socrates argues the gods are concerned with ____________.
(a) Their own splendor.
(b) The government.
(c) Power and might.
(d) Human welfare.

2. What was Niceratus proud he could do?
(a) Make women love him.
(b) Run the fastest.
(c) Juggle.
(d) Recite all of the Iliad and the Odyssey.

3. What event does Xenophon describe to begin his story?
(a) A funeral for his father.
(b) The horse race at the Great Panathenaic Festival.
(c) A marriage he attended.
(d) A great flood.

4. How do the books show Socrates delivering his message to people?
(a) He uses homilies to deliver his message.
(b) He uses a series of paintings.
(c) He writes people letters.
(d) He delivers his message through song.

5. What does Socrates claim he bears none of although his opponents do?
(a) He bears no shame.
(b) He bears no ill will.
(c) He bears no burden of proof.
(d) He bears no false witness.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the young man focused on that Socrates questions in book 3?

2. Who does Alcibiades have a discussion with about the nature of law?

3. Who comes to entertain the men at Callias' dinner?

4. What does Socrates praise Euthydemus for in spite of previously chiding him?

5. What does Socrates focus on instead of what is good generally, at the close of Subsection 8?

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