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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. Whom was Callias strongly attracted to in Chapter 3?
(a) The wife of his best friend.
(b) His own mother.
(c) A ghost.
(d) The boy Autolycus.

2. What does Socrates say about homosexuality?
(a) He is disgusted by the idea.
(b) It is impure and debauchery.
(c) It is to be expected.
(d) It is a genetic defect.

3. How does Socrates defend his claim of pride in his ability as a pimp?
(a) He speaks with the most bravado.
(b) He represents his clients pleasantly and speaks modestly.
(c) He has the most influence.
(d) He has the largest following.

4. Socrates argues the gods are concerned with ____________.
(a) Human welfare.
(b) Power and might.
(c) The government.
(d) Their own splendor.

5. What features do not fade according to Socrates?
(a) Those which come from loving a person's mind.
(b) Those we do not have.
(c) Those which we do not use.
(d) Those we alter.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Aristippus try to trap Socrates into claiming?

3. How did Socrates help people when it came to religion?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What does Socrates tell Charmides about his use of his administrative abilities?

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

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

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

8. How does Socrates try to convince Nicomachides that Antisthenes can succeed as a general?

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

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

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