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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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.

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

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

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

6. Whom does Socrates claim makes what is right into what is lawful?
(a) The people.
(b) The gods.
(c) The Assembly.
(d) The teachers.

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

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

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

10. What does Socrates believe about courage?
(a) It is largely innate but can be learned.
(b) It does not exist.
(c) It is solely a learned trait.
(d) It is his greatest virtue.

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

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

13. How did Socrates teach about morality and piety according to Xenophon?
(a) With complicated metaphors.
(b) By teaching and following it.
(c) By writing songs.
(d) By setting an example of what not to do.

14. What does Socrates do to help people avoid mistakes and to teach others?
(a) He scolds them when they make mistakes.
(b) He teaches them to lie.
(c) He improves them through philosophical discussion.
(d) He removes them from society.

15. How does Socrates defend his claim of pride in his ability as a pimp?
(a) He has the largest following.
(b) He speaks with the most bravado.
(c) He represents his clients pleasantly and speaks modestly.
(d) He has the most influence.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What are you compelled to do if you admire the goodness of another according to Socrates?

3. What does Xenophon feel Socrates could do based on individual's needs?

4. What event was Xenophon hosting a party to celebrate in Chapter 3?

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

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