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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. Whom is Lamprocles becoming angry with that causes Socrates to teach him?
(a) The government.
(b) His brother.
(c) The gods.
(d) His mother.

2. How does Plato compare to Xenophon as a philosopher?
(a) Plato is inferior to Xenophon.
(b) They are about equal.
(c) Plato is a better philosopher.
(d) They are too similar to compare.

3. What is free action according to the editor?
(a) Action done recklessly and quickly.
(b) An unattainable goal.
(c) Action that chooses good and is not hampered by vice.
(d) Action that leads to free money.

4. What is Socrates' view on democracy?
(a) He had never heard of it.
(b) He thought it the best way to run a country.
(c) He thought it needed to be implemented instantly.
(d) He found it silly.

5. What is the main theme of the Memoirs?
(a) God does not exist.
(b) Its not what you know; it's who you know.
(c) Socrates is always correct.
(d) The ideal of the true good.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Socrates prophesy about in Chapter 1?

2. What does the editor believe about the validity of the writings?

3. What had Socrates decided that made him appear arrogant, according to Xenophon?

4. How does Socrates teach his associates they should act in respect to food, drink, sex, and sleep?

5. What does Socrates believe most people undervalue?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. 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?

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

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

8. How does Xenophon define the concept to the "true good" in 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. Why does the editor present Socrates' defense first in this collection of Socratic dialogues?

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