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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Hermogenes say drunkenness is in subsection six?
(a) The best way to live life.
(b) Annoying one's companions.
(c) A horrific crime.
(d) Man's only solace.

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

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

4. How does Socrates wish to speak of love in subsection eight?
(a) As a childish dream.
(b) As a cruel joke.
(c) As an unfair game.
(d) As a deity.

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

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

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

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

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

10. How does Socrates feel about Pericles (the younger)?
(a) He can't stand him.
(b) He would like to kill him.
(c) He has high hopes for his generalship.
(d) He believes him to be the most pious of all people.

11. What did Socrates do to make his friends more efficient?
(a) Urged them to have self-discipline.
(b) Gave them better tools.
(c) Freed them from all labor.
(d) Did their work for them.

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

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

14. Why did Euthydemus remove himself from the group according to Socrates?
(a) To follow a different philosophy.
(b) To gain a different perspective.
(c) To repent of his sins.
(d) To avoid embarrassment and learning.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Socrates believe is part of living a well-ordered life?

2. According to Socrates, what is one way to learn what is right?

3. Where does Chapter 3 take place?

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

5. How did Socrates help people when it came to religion?

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