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

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

4. Where does Chapter 3 take place?
(a) An Athenian dinner party.
(b) An abandoned temple.
(c) Socrates' grave.
(d) A shrine to the gods.

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

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

7. What does Socrates argue men should rank over physical love?
(a) Love of mind.
(b) Love of parents.
(c) Love of God.
(d) Love of money.

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

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

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

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

12. What does Socrates conclude about the terms right and lawful?
(a) They have the same meaning.
(b) He does not understand them.
(c) They have no relation to real life.
(d) They are opposites.

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

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

15. What does Socrates say is part of the job of a good general?
(a) Spreading the teachings of the gods.
(b) Sacrificing himself to curry favor from the gods.
(c) Securing the happiness of his followers.
(d) Merciless killing.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Xenophon believe Socrates thought about all virtues?

2. How does Xenophon claim Socrates reacted to authority?

3. Socrates claims that having physical love is no indication of ______________.

4. What was the young man focused on that Socrates questions in book 3?

5. How does Socrates feel about Pericles (the younger)?

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