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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are the standards of virtue as seen by Socrates?
(a) Time management and athletic ability.
(b) Wisdom, justice, self-control, and piety.
(c) Wealth and slave owning.
(d) Patience is the only virtue according to Socrates.

2. According to Socrates,what has not corrupted the youth?
(a) His practice of virtue.
(b) The texts they have read.
(c) The food they eat.
(d) The government.

3. What does Socrates claim he bears none of although his opponents do?
(a) He bears no ill will.
(b) He bears no burden of proof.
(c) He bears no shame.
(d) He bears no false witness.

4. How does Socrates teach his associates they should act in respect to food, drink, sex, and sleep?
(a) They should disregard these vices as unnecessary.
(b) They should fear them.
(c) They should live to excess.
(d) They should be self-disciplined.

5. What does the author point out about his Socratic writings in Chapter 1?
(a) He plagiarized large portions of it.
(b) They are not his best work.
(c) They are meant to slander Socrates.
(d) They were written with the express purpose of defending Socrates.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Meletus see Socrates doing?

2. What is free action according to the editor?

3. What does the Oracle of Delphi have to say about Socrates?

4. What did Socrates believe about the gods that led to his great respect for them?

5. What is the problem with the refugees Aristarchus is housing?

Short Essay Questions

1. What type of friends does Socrates tell Cristobulus that he should set to acquire?

2. How does Xenophon define the concept to the "true good" in Chapter 2, Book 1?

3. How did Socrates' instruction benefit Crito in subsection 9 of Chapter 2, Book 2?

4. In Chapter 2, Book 1, what does the editor clarify about the concepts of self-discipline and free action?

5. How is the anecdote about Critias and Alebiades used to prove that Socrates did not have a negative effect on the youth?

6. What did Socrates try to teach Chaerephon and Chaerecrates in Subsection 3 of Chapter 2, Book 2?

7. Why does the editor present Socrates' defense first in this collection of Socratic dialogues?

8. Describe the conversation between Pericles and Alcibiades in subsection 2 of Chapter 2, Book 1.

9. In subsection 1 of Chapter 2, Book 1, what does Xenophon say about Socrates in defense of the charges that he worshiped different gods than the state and introduced new deities?

10. What were the main charges that Socrates was accused of at his trial?

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