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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Hermogenes say he retains his friends?
(a) By praising them and returning their good works.
(b) By paying them.
(c) By feeding them.
(d) By holding their money from them.

2. What did Socrates do as President of the Assembly?
(a) He accepted bribes.
(b) He barred illegal motions.
(c) Extorted the wealthy.
(d) Bullied others in the Assembly.

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

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

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

6. Socrates wanted his friends to be well-informed on ___________.
(a) Military strategy.
(b) Many various subjects.
(c) His teachings.
(d) The gods.

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

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

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

10. What features do not fade according to Socrates?
(a) Those we alter.
(b) Those which come from loving a person's mind.
(c) Those which we do not use.
(d) Those we do not have.

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

12. What does Xenophon feel Socrates could do based on individual's needs?
(a) Instruct the person in the ways of the gods.
(b) Predict the person's future.
(c) Make the person a formidable soldier.
(d) Adjust his aid accordingly.

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

14. What does Socrates talk with Epigenes about in subsection 12?
(a) His poor physical condition.
(b) The afterlife.
(c) A job he has in mind for him.
(d) His snobby attitude.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Whom does Socrates wish to help in his conversation with Aristippus in subsection 8?

2. What does Aristippus try to trap Socrates into claiming?

3. What does Socrates tell Euthydemus about people without self-discipline?

4. In subsection 10, Socrates talks to _____________to show he cares for their interests.

5. What did Socrates do to make his friends more efficient?

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