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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. Where does Chapter 3 take place?

2. What are the main themes of Chapter 3?

3. How does Xenophon feel about spending time with Socrates?

4. What does Socrates do to help Glaucon become a head of state?

5. Whom does Socrates describe as soft?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. 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?

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What does Socrates think about poverty, and why?

Essay Topic 2

Investigate "Conversations of Socrates" as an apologia. How does it adhere to and differ from the typical apologia? What changes could be made to mark it more clearly as an apologia? What changes could be made to prevent critics from classifying the book as an apologia?

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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