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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

7. What does Xenophon claim no one should believe about Socrates?
(a) He was an intelligent man.
(b) He made false claims about the divine.
(c) He made valid points.
(d) He cared for people.

8. What does Socrates do to Euthydemus to convince him he needs to be wiser?
(a) He confuses him in conversation.
(b) He speaks in tongues.
(c) He tells him the gods told him so.
(d) He bests him in a fight.

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

10. Charmides claims the combination of young beauty and music make him think of _____________.
(a) The gods.
(b) Youth.
(c) Love.
(d) Home.

11. How does Xenophon claim Socrates meet his death?
(a) As a foolish man.
(b) As a noble man.
(c) As a repentant man.
(d) As a cowardly man.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Socrates believe the Athenians should do?

2. What does Socrates talk with Epigenes about in subsection 12?

3. What does Socrates try and convince Dionysodorous of in Book 3?

4. What does Socrates focus on instead of what is good generally, at the close of Subsection 8?

5. What does Socrates do to help people avoid mistakes and to teach others?

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