Conversations of Socrates Test | Final Test - Easy

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Conversations of Socrates Test | Final Test - Easy

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Xenophon believe Socrates thought about all virtues?
(a) They are a myth.
(b) He was above them.
(c) They are beyond human comprehension.
(d) They are the same.

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

3. 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.

4. What does Socrates discuss with Charmides at the start of subsection 7?
(a) Their plans to take over the world.
(b) Crimes of passion.
(c) How to win in athletic competitions.
(d) How to become wealthy.

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

6. What does Aristippus try to trap Socrates into claiming?
(a) He is a god.
(b) Evil is the only true good.
(c) Something conditionally good is unqualified good.
(d) He should be a general.

7. What does Socrates believe about courage?
(a) It is solely a learned trait.
(b) It is his greatest virtue.
(c) It is largely innate but can be learned.
(d) It does not exist.

8. How does Xenophon claim Socrates reacted to authority?
(a) He obeyed it.
(b) He openly rebelled against it.
(c) He disregarded it.
(d) He was the authority.

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

10. What does Socrates believe the Athenians should do?
(a) Repent of their sins.
(b) Go on the offensive.
(c) Recover their ancestral forms of life.
(d) Relocate the city.

11. 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.

12. What does Hermogenes delight in?
(a) The ruination of others.
(b) Military victory.
(c) The goodness and influence of his friends.
(d) The stature he has attained.

13. 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.

14. What does Socrates claim is easier about love for the mind?
(a) It is easier to live without.
(b) It is easier to fake.
(c) It is easier to reciprocate.
(d) It requires little work.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Whom does Socrates describe as soft?

2. Socrates argues the gods are concerned with ____________.

3. Whom does Socrates have a discussion with about right conduct in subsection 4?

4. Whom was Callias strongly attracted to in Chapter 3?

5. What event was Xenophon hosting a party to celebrate in Chapter 3?

(see the answer keys)

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