Q 01/05

Socrates lived in which ancient Greek city?

A) Athens

B) Sparta

C) Corinth

D) Thebes

Answer · why

A) Athens

He was born in 470 or 469 BC to relatively affluent citizens.

Q 02/05

How many written works did Socrates himself leave behind?

A) More than thirty

B) None

C) One

D) Seven

Answer · why

B) None

Everything known about him comes from others, chiefly his students Plato and Xenophon and the playwright Aristophanes.

Q 03/05

What was the trade of Socrates's father Sophroniscus?

A) Fishmonger

B) Shipwright

C) Stoneworker

D) Potter

Answer · why

C) Stoneworker

His mother's profession, he later joked, was the model for his own way of drawing ideas out of people.

Q 04/05

In which Athenian deme was Socrates born?

A) Marathon

B) Piraeus

C) Eleusis

D) Alopece

Answer · why

D) Alopece

Being born there to citizen parents made him an Athenian citizen himself.

Q 05/05

Xenophon was elected a leader of which retreating Greek mercenary army at age 30?

A) The Ten Thousand

B) The Sacred Band

C) The Immortals

D) The Myrmidons

Answer · why

A) The Ten Thousand

They had marched with Cyrus the Younger in his failed bid for the Persian throne; the story fills his Anabasis.