1. Who summoned Socrates to appear before them and to stand his trial ? 2. What did Socrates’s friends beg him for ?

Question

Read the following passages and answer the questions put thereupon :

The men who were …………….. believed to be right. [ From passage II]

1. Who summoned Socrates to appear before them and to stand his trial ?

2. What did Socrates’s friends beg him for ?

3. What did Socrates tell the Athenians ? 

Or

What did he say to the governors of Athens during his trial ?

4. Why did Socrates not escape or hide to avoid punishment ? 

5. What qualities of Socrates do you come to know after reading the passage ?

6. Why was Socrates not afraid of facing the governors of Athens ?

7. Why did the people respect him even though he was shabbily dressed ?

8. What do we come to know about Socrates from the given passage?

9. Who made a powerful and dignified speech ?

Answer 1

1. The rulers of Athens summoned Socrates to appear before them and to stand his trial.

2. Socrates’ friends begged him to escape or to hide until the storm had blown away.

3. Socrates told the Athenians that they would get nothing by taking away his | life.

4. Socrates did not escape or hide because he was not a coward. He thought that he was right in his teachings.

5. Socrates was a great preacher, a keen observer of things, very wise and fear less.

6. Socrates was not afraid of facing the governors of Athens because he was not a coward. He knew that he had done nothing wrong and that he had only taught what he believed to be just, true and honourable.

7. Though Socrates was shabbily dressed, people respected him for his noble heart that beat under the garments.

8. We come to know about Socrates that a noble heart beats under the shabby garments.

9. Socrates made a powerful and dignified speech.