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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 Socrates discuss with Charmides at the start of subsection 7?
2. What does Socrates claim is easier about love for the mind?
3. How does Hermogenes say he retains his friends?
4. What does Socrates argue men should rank over physical love?
5. According to Socrates, what happens to physical love as we age?
Short Essay Questions
1. In the first subsection of Chapter 2, Book 4, what does Xenophon claim about spending time with Socrates?
2. How does Socrates try to convince Nicomachides that Antisthenes can succeed as a general?
3. Why does Socrates claim his friends need to learn responsibility before any other virtue?
4. 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?
5. What is Socrates' opinion of how courage is acquired?
6. Why is Socrates proud and how does he defend his claim?
7. What does Socrates claim about the difference between physical love and love of the mind in Chapter 3?
8. Describe Socrates conversation about self-discipline with Euthydemus.
9. How do the men at the dinner party react to seeing the passionate kissing between Ariadne and Dionysus?
10. 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?
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
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?
Essay Topic 3
How is Xenophon's "Conversations of Socrates" similar to and different from Plato's "Apology"? Why do these two works warrant a comparison at all?
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