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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through 88c - 95a.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What pleasures are not the great goods of life according to Socrates?
(a) Being generous, loved and respected.
(b) Food, drink and political power.
(c) Power, sex and influence.
(d) Food, drink and sex.

2. What does Socrates argue cannot come from the present life in 73a-81a?
(a) Inequality.
(b) Our loved ones.
(c) Our knowledge of equals.
(d) Our memories.

3. How does the man recounting Socrates' death qualify it?
(a) Painless.
(b) Quick.
(c) Astonishing.
(d) Common.

4. Who doesn't deserve to live according to the masses?
(a) The Spartans.
(b) The senate members.
(c) Those who follow Socrates.
(d) Those who take little pleasure in the body.

5. What does Socrates say should not make one hate argument?
(a) The rebuttal.
(b) The difficulty.
(c) Being wrong.
(d) The ease.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Cebes argue a man can always answer correctly?

2. Why was Socrates held prior to dying, according to the two men discussing at the start of "Phaedo"?

3. What ways do things exist according to Socrates?

4. What does Philosophy tell men about the senses?

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

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