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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Socrates tell Euthydemus about people without self-discipline?
(a) They make great leaders.
(b) He should kill them.
(c) They are no better than beasts.
(d) They rule the world.

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

4. 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 know the people well.
(d) You must curry favor from the gods.

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

6. What does Xenophon reveal to us about Theodote in subsection 11?
(a) She consorts with anyone persuasive.
(b) She is a beacon of prudence.
(c) She is in love with him.
(d) She is very wealthy.

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

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

9. What was the first thing Socrates said his friends needed?
(a) Shelter.
(b) Responsibility.
(c) Money.
(d) Slaves.

10. Socrates claims that having physical love is no indication of ______________.
(a) Virtue of any kind.
(b) Your intelligence.
(c) Your general health.
(d) Your goals in life.

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

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

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

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

15. Whom does Socrates wish to help in his conversation with Aristippus in subsection 8?
(a) Aristippus.
(b) Those listening to the conversation.
(c) The children of Aristippus.
(d) Himself.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Socrates question Theodote about?

2. How did Socrates teach about morality and piety according to Xenophon?

3. What does Socrates claim is easier about love for the mind?

4. What does Hermogenes delight in?

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

(see the answer keys)

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