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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. Socrates wanted his friends to be well-informed on ___________.
(a) Many various subjects.
(b) The gods.
(c) His teachings.
(d) Military strategy.

2. What does Socrates praise Euthydemus for in spite of previously chiding him?
(a) His tidy house.
(b) His cooking ability.
(c) His generous gift.
(d) His interest in achieving wisdom.

3. How did Socrates teach about morality and piety according to Xenophon?
(a) With complicated metaphors.
(b) By setting an example of what not to do.
(c) By writing songs.
(d) By teaching and following it.

4. Why did Dionysodorous come to Athens in Book 3?
(a) To kill Socrates.
(b) To seek financial help.
(c) To teach military command.
(d) To save his soul.

5. Where does Socrates explain to Critobulus you can find beauty?
(a) In no one.
(b) In death.
(c) In many things as well as people.
(d) In simple farming.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Socrates focus on instead of what is good generally, at the close of Subsection 8?

2. What does Socrates believe about courage?

3. What was the first thing Socrates said his friends needed?

4. How does Xenophon claim Socrates meet his death?

5. How does Socrates feel about Pericles (the younger)?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Socrates conversation with Pericles in the fifth subsection of Chapter 2, Book 3.

2. Why does Socrates claim his friends need to learn responsibility before any other virtue?

3. What does Socrates tell his companions at the dinner party about love in subsection 8 of Chapter 3?

4. What does Socrates tell Charmides about his use of his administrative abilities?

5. What does Socrates learn about Theodote in Chapter 2, Book 3, Subsection 11, and how does he instruct her?

6. How did Socrates improve his associates through philosophical discussion?

7. How does Xenophon demonstrate that Socrates displayed his conception of morality and piety by following it in the fourth subsection of Chapter 2, Book 4?

8. Why does Euthydemus think himself wise, and what does Socrates conclude after conversing with him?

9. What do the men at the dinner party claim as the reasons for their pride, and what happens when the men discuss the value of what each man claims to possess?

10. Describe Socrates conversation about self-discipline with Euthydemus.

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