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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 is Xenophon confused by in the first subsection of Book 1?
(a) The accusation that Socrates is guilty of the charges.
(b) The importance of Socrates' trial.
(c) The meaning Socrates is trying to convey.
(d) The military presence surrounding Socrates.

2. What does Hermogenes claim could be the outcome of the trial?
(a) Socrates could confess despite his innocence.
(b) A hopeless deadlock among the jurors.
(c) Socrates could be guilty of something else.
(d) Socrates could be convicted.

3. 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 were written with the express purpose of defending Socrates.
(d) They are meant to slander Socrates.

4. What makes the Memoirs of Socrates hard to date?
(a) It is written with horrible grammar.
(b) The conversations are poorly organized.
(c) Socrates himself denounced the writings.
(d) The document is in pieces.

5. What did Socrates not encourage his students to do?
(a) Pay taxes.
(b) Join the military.
(c) Read other teachings besides his.
(d) Become tyrants.

Short Answer Questions

1. What were Socrates' friends doing that mystified him?

2. What is the main theme compared to in Chapter 2?

3. What does Meletus claim Socrates caused the youth to do?

4. At the start of subsection 7, what does Xenophon relate Socrates has done for his friends?

5. Who is Hermogenes' father?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why doesn't Socrates prepare for his defense before the trial?

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

3. What does Xenophon note at the opening of Socrates' defense, and whom does he cite as an important source of information?

4. What does Socrates tell Cristobulus he should do in order to deserve good friends who are also good people?

5. How did Socrates act out of public piety to show his students how to live good lives?

6. How does Socrates open his defense, and how does he refer to the Oracle of Delphi as part of his argument?

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

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

9. How does Xenophon feel about the accusation that Socrates turned his students against their parents? How does he feel Athens should have felt about Socrates?

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

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