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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 conclude about the terms right and lawful?
(a) They have no relation to real life.
(b) They are opposites.
(c) They have the same meaning.
(d) He does not understand them.

2. How does Xenophon feel about spending time with Socrates?
(a) He loathes it.
(b) He wishes to be elsewhere.
(c) He feels it is a privilege.
(d) He feels it is always a service.

3. What does Socrates do to help Glaucon become a head of state?
(a) Supports him publicly.
(b) Places a bribe on his behalf.
(c) Sacrifices to the gods on his behalf.
(d) Instructs him to become wise.

4. What event was Xenophon hosting a party to celebrate in Chapter 3?
(a) Autolycus' victory in the pancration.
(b) His recent favors from the gods.
(c) A victorious battle by soldiers.
(d) His election to the Senate .

5. Socrates claims that having physical love is no indication of ______________.
(a) Your goals in life.
(b) Virtue of any kind.
(c) Your general health.
(d) Your intelligence.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does Charmides act around the weakest of people according to Socrates?

3. Whom does Socrates wish to help in his conversation with Aristippus in subsection 8?

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

5. What does Socrates believe is part of living a well-ordered life?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How does the dinner party of Chapter 3 come to be?

4. Why does Euthydemus think himself wise, and what does Socrates conclude after conversing with him?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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