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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. To Socrates, what would illegally breaking out of prison constitute?
(a) Piety.
(b) The rule of law.
(c) Justice.
(d) Retaliation.

2. Which of the following is NOT one of the character traits of Socrates in The Clouds?
(a) Pious.
(b) Immoral.
(c) Deceitful.
(d) Iconoclastic.

3. At what point does Strepsiades stop speaking to Pheidippides?
(a) When Pheidippides tries to trick Strepsiades' creditors.
(b) When Pheidippides enrolls with Socrates.
(c) When Pheidippides reads a poem about incest.
(d) When Pheidippides threatens to beat up his own mother.

4. What is Strepsiades' ultimate goal when coming to Socrates?
(a) He wants to summon the courage to marry his sweetheart.
(b) He wants to escape to Italy.
(c) He wants to replace Socrates.
(d) He wants to trick his money lenders.

5. What is Pheidippides' opinion about the old city songs?
(a) He despises them.
(b) He has a particular affection for them.
(c) He is indifferent.
(d) He likes them just to endear himself to Socrates.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Socrates try to teach Strepsiades?

2. What do experts have to do with laws?

3. Where does Crito take place?

4. Aristophanes is known for using what kind of rhetoric?

5. How does Socrates' respond to Crito's worry over Socrates' reputation?

Short Essay Questions

1. To what degree did The Clouds shape public perception of Socrates?

2. What is the nature of the fight Strepsiades and Pheidippides have when Strepsiades throws a party for his son?

3. Who is Strepsiades? Why does he enter Socrates' Thinkery?

4. How does Aristophanes' general attitude towards Socrates differ from that of Plato's?

5. What is Socrates' attitude toward his impending death at the end of Crito?

6. Why did Socrates offer such a meek defense and go to prison and his death so willingly?

7. How does Pheidippides enter the Thinkery? What does he learn there?

8. What are the consequences of breaking the law?

9. Given Crito's criticism of Socrates, what segment of society can Crito be said to represent?

10. How does Socrates use the notion of a contract to reinforce his opinion that obeying the law is necessary?

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