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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 additional virtue is Socrates credited with having?
(a) The virtue of silence.
(b) The ability to perform magic.
(c) The ability to teach others.
(d) He is a brilliant alchemist.

2. Who is Hermogenes' father?
(a) Plato.
(b) Xenophon.
(c) Hipponicus.
(d) Socrates.

3. What does Socrates believe most people undervalue?
(a) A hard day's work.
(b) Religion.
(c) Their friends.
(d) Their civic duty.

4. What does Plato think of Socrates' defense at the trial?
(a) It echoes his own thoughts.
(b) It is utter nonsense.
(c) It is based on falsehoods.
(d) He has an arrogant tone.

5. What does Xenophon argue that Socrates has never done?
(a) Listened to others.
(b) Sacrificed to the gods.
(c) Uttered a heretical word.
(d) Obeyed laws.

Short Answer Questions

1. What behavior of Critias and Alcibiades did Socrates not approve of?

2. What does Socrates claim he bears none of although his opponents do?

3. Socrates believes Lamprocles has ample reason to be grateful to _____________.

4. What is the general point of Book 2?

5. Who asked the Oracle at Delphi about Socrates?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Socrates help Aristarchus sort through ignorance and deficiencies?

2. What does Socrates say in response to the charge of corrupting the young?

3. Why did Socrates have an arrogant tone at his trial according to Xenophon?

4. According to the editor how does Xenophon's "Conversations of Socrates" compare to Plato's "Apology"?

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

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

7. How does Socrates feel about the value of friends?

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

9. What does Socrates tell his oldest son when Lamprodes is angry with his mother Xanthippe?

10. How does Socrates' conversation with Antiphon serve to demonstrate that Socrates loved virtue?

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