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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why are moderates amongst the masses also moderate out of fear according to Socrates?
(a) They are afraid of the justice system.
(b) They do not want to follow philosophy.
(c) They do not want to fight the Spartans.
(d) They do not want to lose what they have.

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

3. What does Socrates say most people are ready to do when their loved ones die?
(a) Move on.
(b) Learn philosophy.
(c) Die.
(d) Go to the underworld.

4. What did the people present with Socrates think of his argument according to Phaedo?
(a) They think they are unsubstantiated.
(b) They think they are good.
(c) They think they are overbearing.
(d) They think they need more polishing.

5. What does Socrates believe something in existence will lead us away from in 66b-72e?
(a) Ignorance.
(b) Greed.
(c) Prison.
(d) Confusion of senses.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Socrates think of desires?

2. What is weaker than the lyre according to Socrates?

3. What does Socrates argue is not possible without wisdom?

4. What is happening to things Socrates says he knew before?

5. What does purification consist of according to Socrates?

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