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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 tell Euthydemus about people without self-discipline?
(a) They are no better than beasts.
(b) He should kill them.
(c) They make great leaders.
(d) They rule the world.

2. What does Socrates believe is part of living a well-ordered life?
(a) Good eating.
(b) A vow of silence.
(c) Staying awake.
(d) Drinking to excess.

3. According to Socrates, what happens to physical love as we age?
(a) It controls us.
(b) We understand it better.
(c) It grows stronger.
(d) We lose it.

4. How does Hermogenes say he retains his friends?
(a) By praising them and returning their good works.
(b) By holding their money from them.
(c) By feeding them.
(d) By paying them.

5. What does Socrates focus on instead of what is good generally, at the close of Subsection 8?
(a) He focuses on the good he has done.
(b) He focuses on his godly nature.
(c) He focuses on the evils of his fellow man.
(d) He focuses on what things are good for what purpose.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does Socrates wish to speak of love in subsection eight?

3. Whom was Callias strongly attracted to in Chapter 3?

4. Who comes to entertain the men at Callias' dinner?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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