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

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

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

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) Repent your sins.
(c) Question their motives.
(d) Act violently towards others.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In subsection 10, Socrates talks to _____________to show he cares for their interests.

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

3. What did the bachelors vow to do after seeing the couple's passionate kissing?

4. According to Socrates, what is one way to learn what is right?

5. Charmides claims the combination of young beauty and music make him think of _____________.

Short Essay Questions

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

2. 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?

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

4. What does Socrates claim about the difference between physical love and love of the mind in Chapter 3?

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

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

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

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

9. How do the men at the dinner party react to seeing the passionate kissing between Ariadne and Dionysus?

10. 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?

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