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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. Socrates argues the gods are concerned with ____________.

2. What does Socrates talk with Epigenes about in subsection 12?

3. What was the person Socrates chided upset about?

4. What does Hermogenes delight in?

5. What does Socrates praise Euthydemus for in spite of previously chiding him?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. 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?

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. 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?

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

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

Compare and contrast Socrates and Xenophon. How are their beliefs and teachings similar and different?

Essay Topic 3

How is the concept of the "true good" defined in Memoirs of Socrates, and how do the stories in this chapter reflect this idea?

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