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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 will allow Antisthenes to gain the needed capacities?
(a) His focus on winning.
(b) His charisma.
(c) His piety.
(d) His fearlessness.

2. How does Xenophon claim Socrates reacted to authority?
(a) He openly rebelled against it.
(b) He disregarded it.
(c) He was the authority.
(d) He obeyed it.

3. Whom does Socrates wish to help in his conversation with Aristippus in subsection 8?
(a) Those listening to the conversation.
(b) Aristippus.
(c) The children of Aristippus.
(d) Himself.

4. Who comes to entertain the men at Callias' dinner?
(a) Socrates.
(b) A group of actors.
(c) A singing group.
(d) Phillipus.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Socrates conclude about the terms right and lawful?

2. What are the main themes of Chapter 3?

3. What are you compelled to do if you admire the goodness of another according to Socrates?

4. Socrates reasons the world was designed for ______________.

5. What does Socrates believe about courage?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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