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

2. What was the person Socrates chided upset about?

3. Whom does Socrates claim makes what is right into what is lawful?

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

5. What event was Xenophon hosting a party to celebrate in Chapter 3?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How does Xenophon demonstrate that Socrates displayed his conception of morality and piety by following it in the fourth subsection of Chapter 2, Book 4?

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

5. What is Socrates' opinion of how courage is acquired?

6. 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?

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

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

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

10. How does Xenophon justify his claim that Socrates was so devout that he did nothing without divine sanction?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How are the different symbols used throughout "Conversations of Socrates" to represent abstract concepts? Detail and explain how the symbols are used to describe certain abstract concepts and which concepts they describe.

Essay Topic 2

What role does religion play in "Conversations of Socrates"? Why is this important to the plot overall?

Essay Topic 3

How do the minor people in this book affect the plot? How would this book be different if one or more of these people were removed?

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