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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 Hermogenes say drunkenness is in subsection six?

2. According to Socrates, what is one way to learn what is right?

3. What does Socrates say is part of the job of a good general?

4. What does Xenophon claim no one should believe about Socrates?

5. Where does Chapter 3 take place?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. 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?

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

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

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

What charges was Socrates accused and convicted of, and how does Xenophon defend Socrates against each of these charges in "Conversations of Socrates"?

Essay Topic 3

Find two conversations that address the same topic in this collection. Compare and contrast these two anecdotes.

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