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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Hermogenes claim could be the outcome of the trial?
(a) A hopeless deadlock among the jurors.
(b) Socrates could confess despite his innocence.
(c) Socrates could be convicted.
(d) Socrates could be guilty of something else.

2. How does Socrates teach his associates they should act in respect to food, drink, sex, and sleep?
(a) They should be self-disciplined.
(b) They should live to excess.
(c) They should fear them.
(d) They should disregard these vices as unnecessary.

3. What is Socrates' view on democracy?
(a) He had never heard of it.
(b) He found it silly.
(c) He thought it needed to be implemented instantly.
(d) He thought it the best way to run a country.

4. How does Socrates argue one can modify someone else's behavior?
(a) By ignoring them until they change.
(b) By deserting them.
(c) By providing behavior incentives.
(d) By force.

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

6. Whom is Lamprocles becoming angry with that causes Socrates to teach him?
(a) His brother.
(b) The gods.
(c) His mother.
(d) The government.

7. Subsection 8 shows Socrates interacting with ___________.
(a) A young beggar on the street.
(b) Revolutionaries.
(c) New deities.
(d) His friend Eutherus.

8. When did Socrates think about his defense?
(a) For three months prior to the trial.
(b) When he was summoned for the trial.
(c) For one week in a cell.
(d) All of the time.

9. What were Socrates' friends doing that mystified him?
(a) Calling him God.
(b) Crying as he was led away.
(c) Praying for his release.
(d) Chanting his name.

10. What forced the jurors to condemn Socrates, according to Xenophon?
(a) Socrates' arrogance.
(b) Government influence.
(c) The gods.
(d) Socrates' appearance.

11. What did Critias and Alcibiades control while under Socrates tutelage?
(a) Their natural vices.
(b) Socrates' finances.
(c) The fate of all of Greece.
(d) All the wealth in Athens.

12. 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.

13. What does Xenophon argue the city of Athens should do to Socrates?
(a) Revere him as a god.
(b) Banish him from the city.
(c) Praise him for his good deeds.
(d) Execute him.

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

15. Who is Hermogenes' father?
(a) Socrates.
(b) Plato.
(c) Hipponicus.
(d) Xenophon.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Socrates say should not be avoided completely on the path of liberty?

2. Ultimately, what is Socrates' Defense?

3. What had Socrates decided that made him appear arrogant, according to Xenophon?

4. Who brought the charges against Socrates?

5. What does the editor believe about the validity of the writings?

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