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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Socrates believe the Athenians should do?
(a) Go on the offensive.
(b) Relocate the city.
(c) Recover their ancestral forms of life.
(d) Repent of their sins.

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

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

5. What does Socrates claim is easier about love for the mind?
(a) It requires little work.
(b) It is easier to reciprocate.
(c) It is easier to fake.
(d) It is easier to live without.

6. What event does Xenophon describe to begin his story?
(a) A great flood.
(b) The horse race at the Great Panathenaic Festival.
(c) A funeral for his father.
(d) A marriage he attended.

7. What does Socrates do to help Glaucon become a head of state?
(a) Instructs him to become wise.
(b) Places a bribe on his behalf.
(c) Supports him publicly.
(d) Sacrifices to the gods on his behalf.

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

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

10. What does Hermogenes delight in?
(a) The goodness and influence of his friends.
(b) Military victory.
(c) The ruination of others.
(d) The stature he has attained.

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

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

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

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

15. What does Hermogenes say drunkenness is in subsection six?
(a) Annoying one's companions.
(b) A horrific crime.
(c) Man's only solace.
(d) The best way to live life.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Socrates believe about courage?

3. What does Socrates say is part of the job of a good general?

4. How does Socrates feel about Pericles (the younger)?

5. Whom does Socrates have a discussion with about right conduct in subsection 4?

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