Great Dialogues Quiz Questions | Quiz: Ion to Republic: Book IX

Quiz: Ion to Republic: Book IX

This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

Directions: Circle the correct answer.

1. Tyranny is most likely to occur under which form of government?
a) Democracy.
b) Oligarchy.
c) Aristocracy.
d) Timocracy.

2. Who says, at the very end of Book II, "I completely endorse these patterns, and I would enact them as laws"?
a) Glaucon.
b) Socrates.
c) Thrasymachus.
d) Adeimantus.

3. According to Socrates' opinion, what is the second happiest social class of man in the world?
a) The tyrant.
b) The democratic man.
c) The merchant.
d) The timocratic man.

4. Where is courage found in Socrates' republic?
a) In the soldiers who fight for it.
b) In the labors who toil in the sun.
c) In the lawyers and judges who fight injustice. (read more)