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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through 95b - 107b.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the destination of the soul determined by according to Socrates?
(a) The astrological sign.
(b) The earthly behavior.
(c) The gods.
(d) How much was donated to the poor.

2. Who taught Socrates that "Mind" directs and causes everything?
(a) Anaxagoras.
(b) Phaedo.
(c) Plato.
(d) Echecrates.

3. What is Socrates starting to discuss after abandoning his thinking of empirical causes?
(a) Formal causes.
(b) Effects.
(c) Himself.
(d) Consequences.

4. What can Form not admit, according to Socrates?
(a) That the soul is immortal.
(b) That it is wrong.
(c) That Socrates holds the truth.
(d) Opposites.

5. What conclusion does Socrates deduce from his arguments in the first part of 66b-72e?
(a) That his wisdom is superior to that of Cebes.
(b) That he is right to die without resentment.
(c) That death is incompatible with wisdom.
(d) That fear leads to death.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Socrates believe something in existence will lead us away from in 66b-72e?

2. What does fear and terror make men brave beside of?

3. What does Socrates argue dead things come from?

4. What does Simmias think of knowledge about the next life?

5. What did the people present with Socrates think of his argument according to Phaedo?

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