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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 made Euthydemus feel wise?
(a) He had a vision from the gods.
(b) He had battlefield skills..
(c) He had read the writings of poets and sages.
(d) He had made the decision to flee Greece.

2. What does Socrates do to Euthydemus to convince him he needs to be wiser?
(a) He confuses him in conversation.
(b) He bests him in a fight.
(c) He speaks in tongues.
(d) He tells him the gods told him so.

3. Whom does Socrates have a discussion with about right conduct in subsection 4?
(a) Xenophon.
(b) The Oracle of Delphi.
(c) Hippias of Elis.
(d) Plato.

4. What are you compelled to do if you admire the goodness of another according to Socrates?
(a) Act well to preserve the beloved's goodness.
(b) Question their motives.
(c) Repent your sins.
(d) Act violently towards others.

5. What does Socrates claim all of the men should demonstrate?
(a) Their athletic prowess.
(b) Their devotion to Greece.
(c) Their piety.
(d) The value of what they claim to possess.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Lycon tell Socrates as he is leaving after the discussion?

2. Where does Chapter 3 take place?

3. Why did Euthydemus remove himself from the group according to Socrates?

4. How does Xenophon claim Socrates reacted to authority?

5. What features do not fade according to Socrates?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What is Socrates' opinion of how courage is acquired?

4. What does Socrates say about eating in subsection 14 of Chapter 2, Book 3?

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

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

7. 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?

8. Why is Socrates proud and how does he defend his claim?

9. Describe the conversation about beauty between Socrates and Critobulus in Chapter 3, subsection 5.

10. In the first subsection of Chapter 2, Book 4, what does Xenophon claim about spending time with Socrates?

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