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

2. What does Socrates focus on instead of what is good generally, at the close of Subsection 8?

3. Socrates argues the gods are concerned with ____________.

4. How does Xenophon claim Socrates meet his death?

5. What does Socrates claim is easier about love for the mind?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. What did Socrates tell Euthydemus about the nature of religiosity in subsection 6 of Chapter 2, Book 4?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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

Essay Topic 2

What does Socrates think about poverty, and why?

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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