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

2. How does Xenophon feel about spending time with Socrates?
(a) He wishes to be elsewhere.
(b) He feels it is always a service.
(c) He loathes it.
(d) He feels it is a privilege.

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

4. What are the main themes of Chapter 3?
(a) Socrates should be remembered as a god.
(b) The love affair of Xenophon.
(c) The nature of love and Socrates' ideal true goodness.
(d) Revolt is the only answer.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Xenophon claim no one should believe about Socrates?

2. What does Socrates talk with Epigenes about in subsection 12?

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

4. How does Xenophon believe Socrates thought about all virtues?

5. Whom does Socrates have a discussion with about right conduct in subsection 4?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

6. 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?

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

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

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

10. What did Socrates tell Euthydemus about the nature of religiosity in subsection 6 of Chapter 2, Book 4?

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