What kind of good things does the virtuous person have the capacity to acquire, according to Meno?

Notice how Socrates comments on Meno’s tyrannical attitude (76a-c). Socrates decides to give Meno an answer as to what color is in the style that Meno likes (about effluvia—an ancient theory about particles and light and what makes color visible)—why, according to Socrates, does Meno like this kind of answer.
What kind of good things does the virtuous person have the capacity to acquire, according to Meno? (78c)
What is Meno’s reaction when Socrates asks whether these things must be acquired justly? (77d)
What does Socrates argue that gets Meno to conclude “I think it must necessarily be as you say” at 79a?
What’s the problem Socrates that points out next—in other words, why does he say ‘Meno, you are playing with me?’ (79a-e)
Why does Meno call Socrates a torpedo fish (a sting ray)? (80a-d)
What is Meno’s question at 80d?
Summarize the myth Socrates gives as an answer (81a-e)
Starting at “since we are of one mind” (p. 78), read the rest of Socrates’ comment, ending at the bottom of pg. 79 (87d)
What strategy of investigation does Socrates suggest, given that Meno wants to “inquire into the qualities of something the nature of which” they do not yet know?
What is a hypothesis?
What is Socrates’ hypothesis? Why does Socrates choose it? How will it help them decide whether virtue can be taught?
Having chosen this hypothesis as their starting point, what do they need to do now?

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