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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. What did the bachelors vow to do after seeing the couple's passionate kissing?
(a) To become celibate.
(b) To get married.
(c) To avoid love at all costs.
(d) To join the military.

11. 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.

12. How does Socrates feel about Pericles (the younger)?
(a) He can't stand him.
(b) He has high hopes for his generalship.
(c) He would like to kill him.
(d) He believes him to be the most pious of all people.

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

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

15. How does Xenophon feel about spending time with Socrates?
(a) He feels it is a privilege.
(b) He loathes it.
(c) He feels it is always a service.
(d) He wishes to be elsewhere.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. What does Hermogenes delight in?

5. Socrates reasons the world was designed for ______________.

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