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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who accuses Socrates?
(a) Meletus.
(b) Euthyphro.
(c) Plato.
(d) Oracle.

2. Who does Socrates question?
(a) Meletus.
(b) Phaedro.
(c) Euthyphro.
(d) Plato.

3. Who approached Socrates?
(a) Plato's students.
(b) Poor seekers.
(c) Wealthy young men.
(d) Poets and thieves.

4. What, in Socrates' eyes, is a pointless solution to his crimes?
(a) Community service.
(b) Exile.
(c) Death.
(d) Labor camp.

5. Which topic is not among Socrates' dialogues?
(a) Animalism.
(b) Lust.
(c) Existence.
(d) Servitude.

6. Who is asked not to grieve for the outcome?
(a) Friends.
(b) Wife.
(c) Children.
(d) Parents.

7. Who speaks through the Oracle?
(a) God.
(b) Socrates.
(c) Lucifer.
(d) King.

8. Which of the following was the charge against Socrates?
(a) Destruction of property.
(b) Polygamy.
(c) Censorship.
(d) Corruption.

9. Socrates continues to practice despite the likelihood of which of the following?
(a) Public ridicule.
(b) Banishment.
(c) Death.
(d) Prison.

10. How does Socrates view his philosophy?
(a) Lucky.
(b) Hard won.
(c) Futuristic.
(d) God-given.

11. What would persuade Socrates to abandon his philosophy?
(a) Family pressure.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Money.
(d) Jail.

12. The first setting of this dialogue is where?
(a) Field.
(b) Porch.
(c) Court.
(d) Palace.

13. What word can be used to describe Socrates' philosophies?
(a) Frivilous.
(b) Significant.
(c) Unproven.
(d) False.

14. What is unusual about Socrates' references to God?
(a) God is still forming.
(b) There isn't one.
(c) Socrates has seen him.
(d) Entity is pluralized.

15. Man should not be tied to _______________.
(a) Myth.
(b) His own experience.
(c) Impiety.
(d) Physical law.

Short Answer Questions

1. What item is Socrates accused of "inventing"?

2. What happens to Euthyphro at the end of the first dialogue?

3. Socrates believes he has which of the following?

4. Socrates demands to know the definition of which of the following?

5. Socrates' main goal is to do what in court?

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