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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 does Socrates say is part of the job of a good general?
(a) Sacrificing himself to curry favor from the gods.
(b) Spreading the teachings of the gods.
(c) Securing the happiness of his followers.
(d) Merciless killing.

2. What does Socrates talk with Epigenes about in subsection 12?
(a) The afterlife.
(b) His snobby attitude.
(c) His poor physical condition.
(d) A job he has in mind for him.

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

4. What does Socrates do to help people avoid mistakes and to teach others?
(a) He scolds them when they make mistakes.
(b) He removes them from society.
(c) He teaches them to lie.
(d) He improves them through philosophical discussion.

5. How did Socrates help people when it came to religion?
(a) He warned them to stay away from it.
(b) He showed them the gods in person.
(c) He freed them from its bondage.
(d) He helped them think clearly about it.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whom does Socrates claim makes what is right into what is lawful?

2. What did Socrates do to make his friends more efficient?

3. What does Socrates do to Euthydemus to convince him he needs to be wiser?

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

5. Whom was Callias strongly attracted to in Chapter 3?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the dinner party of Chapter 3 come to be?

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

3. 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?

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

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

6. Why does Socrates tell Epigenes that he should be concerned about being in poor physical condition?

7. What do the men at the dinner party do in the sixth and seventh subsections of Chapter 3?

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

9. 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?

10. What does Socrates say about being a good general?

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