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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. Where does Socrates explain to Critobulus you can find beauty?
(a) In death.
(b) In no one.
(c) In many things as well as people.
(d) In simple farming.

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

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

4. According to Socrates, what happens to physical love as we age?
(a) It controls us.
(b) We lose it.
(c) It grows stronger.
(d) We understand it better.

5. What does Socrates focus on instead of what is good generally, at the close of Subsection 8?
(a) He focuses on what things are good for what purpose.
(b) He focuses on the evils of his fellow man.
(c) He focuses on his godly nature.
(d) He focuses on the good he has done.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Crito able to use to his advantage in subsection 9?

2. How does Socrates teach his associates they should act in respect to food, drink, sex, and sleep?

3. What is the general point of Book 2?

4. Whom does Socrates claim people should listen to if they are sick?

5. What does Book 2 show Socrates did?

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