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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did Socrates help people when it came to religion?
(a) He showed them the gods in person.
(b) He freed them from its bondage.
(c) He warned them to stay away from it.
(d) He helped them think clearly about it.

2. What does Socrates say will allow Antisthenes to gain the needed capacities?
(a) His fearlessness.
(b) His piety.
(c) His focus on winning.
(d) His charisma.

3. Who comes to entertain the men at Callias' dinner?
(a) Socrates.
(b) A group of actors.
(c) Phillipus.
(d) A singing group.

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

5. What does Socrates praise Euthydemus for in spite of previously chiding him?
(a) His generous gift.
(b) His tidy house.
(c) His cooking ability.
(d) His interest in achieving wisdom.

6. What did the bachelors vow to do after seeing the couple's passionate kissing?
(a) To avoid love at all costs.
(b) To become celibate.
(c) To join the military.
(d) To get married.

7. How did Socrates teach about morality and piety according to Xenophon?
(a) With complicated metaphors.
(b) By setting an example of what not to do.
(c) By writing songs.
(d) By teaching and following it.

8. What does Socrates believe you must do to be a good democratic administrator?
(a) You must be very sly.
(b) You must come from a wealthy family.
(c) You must curry favor from the gods.
(d) You must know the people well.

9. What does Socrates try and convince Dionysodorous of in Book 3?
(a) He should have a more expansive view of his job.
(b) There is no God.
(c) He is meant to lead a revolt.
(d) There is a plot against his life.

10. Whom does Socrates have a discussion with about right conduct in subsection 4?
(a) The Oracle of Delphi.
(b) Plato.
(c) Xenophon.
(d) Hippias of Elis.

11. Socrates reasons the world was designed for ______________.
(a) The good of man.
(b) The strong and mighty.
(c) Testing man's resilience.
(d) His personal gain.

12. What does Lycon tell Socrates as he is leaving after the discussion?
(a) He is too drunk to walk home.
(b) He believes Socrates is truly a good man.
(c) He is in love with him.
(d) He thinks Socrates is a fool.

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

14. What does Socrates do to Euthydemus to convince him he needs to be wiser?
(a) He tells him the gods told him so.
(b) He bests him in a fight.
(c) He speaks in tongues.
(d) He confuses him in conversation.

15. What made Euthydemus feel wise?
(a) He had made the decision to flee Greece.
(b) He had battlefield skills..
(c) He had a vision from the gods.
(d) He had read the writings of poets and sages.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Niceratus proud he could do?

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

3. Where does Chapter 3 take place?

4. What does Socrates do to help Glaucon become a head of state?

5. How does Xenophon claim Socrates meet his death?

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