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

2. What does Xenophon note about Socrates' prophecy?
(a) The outcome is yet unknown.
(b) The time it was made.
(c) He was right.
(d) He does not believe him.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who asked the Oracle at Delphi about Socrates?

2. When in his life is Xenophon reported to have written the memoirs?

3. What does Socrates teach Crito in subsection 9?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Socrates' conversation with Aristippus illustrate that he encouraged his friends to be self-disciplined with regard to their bodily desires?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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