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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Whom does Socrates describe as soft?
(a) The soldiers of Greece.
(b) The police force in Athens.
(c) Those that do not use their talents to serve their country.
(d) Charmides' children.

2. What does Xenophon reveal to us about Theodote in subsection 11?
(a) She consorts with anyone persuasive.
(b) She is in love with him.
(c) She is very wealthy.
(d) She is a beacon of prudence.

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

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

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

6. How did Socrates help people when it came to religion?
(a) He showed them the gods in person.
(b) He freed them from its bondage.
(c) He warned them to stay away from it.
(d) He helped them think clearly about it.

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

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

9. Where does Socrates explain to Critobulus you can find beauty?
(a) In many things as well as people.
(b) In death.
(c) In simple farming.
(d) In no one.

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

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

12. What does Lycon tell Socrates as he is leaving after the discussion?
(a) He thinks Socrates is a fool.
(b) He is too drunk to walk home.
(c) He believes Socrates is truly a good man.
(d) He is in love with him.

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

14. What was Niceratus proud he could do?
(a) Make women love him.
(b) Run the fastest.
(c) Juggle.
(d) Recite all of the Iliad and the Odyssey.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Chapter 3 take place?

2. Who comes to entertain the men at Callias' dinner?

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

4. Socrates argues the gods are concerned with ____________.

5. What does Socrates claim all of the men should demonstrate?

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