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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. How did Socrates benefit his associates and friends?
(a) He amused them.
(b) He gave them money.
(c) He protected them with military power.
(d) Through example and conversation.

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

3. Who does Alcibiades have a discussion with about the nature of law?
(a) Socrates.
(b) Pericles.
(c) Plato.
(d) Xenophon.

4. What forced the jurors to condemn Socrates, according to Xenophon?
(a) Government influence.
(b) The gods.
(c) Socrates' appearance.
(d) Socrates' arrogance.

5. What is the problem with the refugees Aristarchus is housing?
(a) They are a rowdy bunch.
(b) They do not work.
(c) They refuse to bathe.
(d) They are drunk all of the time.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whom does Socrates claim people should listen to if they are sick?

2. According to Socrates, why was he not introducing new deities?

3. What is Xenophon explaining at the onset of subsection 4?

4. Who asked the Oracle at Delphi about Socrates?

5. What are the standards of virtue as seen by Socrates?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. 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?

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

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

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

7. 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?

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

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

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

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