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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the soul have when it leaves the body according to Socrates?
(a) Angst and envy.
(b) Needs and regrets.
(c) Education and envy.
(d) Education and upbringing.

2. What was Socrates aware of according to Phaedo?
(a) That Phaedo didn't trust him.
(b) The need for more arguments.
(c) That he needed to leave Athens.
(d) That it was time to die.

3. What is happening to things Socrates says he knew before?
(a) He becomes blind to them.
(b) They are clearer than ever.
(c) Most of them are false.
(d) They are proving to be wrong.

4. What topic does Socrates discuss to answer Cebes question?
(a) Physics.
(b) Philosophy.
(c) Natural science.
(d) Mathematics.

5. What position does Simmias accept concerning the soul?
(a) It has several facets.
(b) It cannot learn.
(c) It is not necessarily composite.
(d) It is mortal.

6. What does Socrates think about the path to Hades and back?
(a) Many exist.
(b) There is only one.
(c) The path is well guarded.
(d) It does not exist.

7. What doesn't Socrates have time for in 107c-115e?
(a) Defend his beliefs.
(b) Eat with his friends.
(c) Explain why he is going to die.
(d) Tell another story.

8. What is Socrates looking into to answer Cebes' question?
(a) Why the soul is harmony.
(b) Why the soul is blind.
(c) Why things came to be and perished.
(d) Why things live so long.

9. What does Socrates argue the good soul is?
(a) Contemplative.
(b) Fearful.
(c) Harmonized.
(d) A philosopher's.

10. What means does Socrates say allows beautiful things to be called beautiful?
(a) The imagination.
(b) The reality.
(c) The soul.
(d) The Beautiful.

11. What is good to believe before dying according to Socrates?
(a) Dying is not painful.
(b) The soul survives death.
(c) Your friend can find you in the afterlife.
(d) The gods love you.

12. What must first happen to those who die according to Socrates?
(a) They must be judged.
(b) They must pay to pass in the other world.
(c) They must go through purgatory.
(d) They must renounce the body.

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

14. What happen after the soul reaches and is accepted at the next station after death?
(a) A guide brings them back to earth.
(b) They educate themselves.
(c) They are guided to heaven.
(d) They wait for a new body.

15. What does Socrates think earth is?
(a) A large tube holding the heavens.
(b) A flat circle.
(c) A sphere in the middle of the heavens.
(d) A cube supported by a turtle.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the start of 88c-95a say about what Phaedo and others thought of Socrates' arguments?

2. What is virtue according to Socrates?

3. What should the philosopher avoid according to Socrates?

4. Who is impressed by Socrates' arguments at the start of 95b-107b?

5. Where does Socrates think the people of earth dwell?

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