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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Xenophon explaining at the onset of subsection 4?

2. How do the books show Socrates delivering his message to people?

3. How does Socrates view suffering through free action?

4. What is the general point of Book 2?

5. What did Socrates not encourage his students to do?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Socrates help Aristarchus sort through ignorance and deficiencies?

2. Why doesn't Socrates prepare for his defense before the trial?

3. In subsection 4 of Chapter 2, Book 1, how did Socrates motivate people to start being good?

4. According to Xenophon why was Socrates convicted, and how was his fate appropriate?

5. What does Socrates say in response to the charge of corrupting the young?

6. What type of friends does Socrates tell Cristobulus that he should set to acquire?

7. How did Socrates act out of public piety to show his students how to live good lives?

8. How does Xenophon feel about the accusation that Socrates turned his students against their parents? How does he feel Athens should have felt about Socrates?

9. How does Socrates' conversation with Aristippus illustrate that he encouraged his friends to be self-disciplined with regard to their bodily desires?

10. How is the anecdote about Critias and Alebiades used to prove that Socrates did not have a negative effect on the youth?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How would the book be different if Xenophon felt that Socrates deserved to die?

Essay Topic 2

Choose one of the main themes in this book (charges against Socrates, Socrates' virtue, true good, love and responsibility) and detail its recurrences throughout the book. What does it add to the story? How does it affect the different individuals?

Essay Topic 3

How does the third person point-of-view enhance and inhibit the story? How would this book be different if a different point of view were used?

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