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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What does Socrates say about homosexuality?
(a) He is disgusted by the idea.
(b) It is impure and debauchery.
(c) It is a genetic defect.
(d) It is to be expected.

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

5. How does Charmides act around the weakest of people according to Socrates?
(a) He acts insane.
(b) He is too hard on them.
(c) He speaks too loudly.
(d) He is too shy.

6. In subsection 10, Socrates talks to _____________to show he cares for their interests.
(a) Beggars.
(b) Generals.
(c) Craftsmen.
(d) Teachers.

7. What was the person Socrates chided upset about?
(a) Someone who did not return his greeting.
(b) The infidelity of his wife.
(c) His place in life.
(d) The failure of his crops.

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

9. Whom does Socrates describe as soft?
(a) The police force in Athens.
(b) Those that do not use their talents to serve their country.
(c) Charmides' children.
(d) The soldiers of Greece.

10. Charmides claims the combination of young beauty and music make him think of _____________.
(a) Youth.
(b) Love.
(c) Home.
(d) The gods.

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

12. What does Socrates claim all of the men should demonstrate?
(a) Their devotion to Greece.
(b) The value of what they claim to possess.
(c) Their athletic prowess.
(d) Their piety.

13. What is Socrates talking to Nicomachides about at the start of subsection 4?
(a) His dying wish.
(b) The state of politics.
(c) Who the people appointed for a general.
(d) The unfairness of slavery.

14. How does Socrates teach people with good ambitions according to Xenophon in Book 3?
(a) He lectures them constantly.
(b) He teaches them to apply themselves.
(c) He tells them jokes.
(d) He tells them a story of the devil.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Hermogenes delight in?

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

3. Why did Euthydemus remove himself from the group according to Socrates?

4. What does Socrates conclude about the terms right and lawful?

5. Why did Dionysodorous come to Athens in Book 3?

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