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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 question Theodote about?
(a) Her allegiance to Greece.
(b) How she finds friends.
(c) Her religious practices.
(d) Her thoughts on marriage.

2. What did Socrates do to make his friends more efficient?
(a) Freed them from all labor.
(b) Gave them better tools.
(c) Did their work for them.
(d) Urged them to have self-discipline.

3. How does Xenophon claim Socrates meet his death?
(a) As a repentant man.
(b) As a noble man.
(c) As a cowardly man.
(d) As a foolish man.

4. What does Socrates argue men should rank over physical love?
(a) Love of mind.
(b) Love of parents.
(c) Love of money.
(d) Love of God.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Socrates claim is easier about love for the mind?

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

3. What does Socrates say will allow Antisthenes to gain the needed capacities?

4. What did Socrates do as President of the Assembly?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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