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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who guides each man to the next station after death?
(a) His guardian spirit.
(b) The gods.
(c) His soul knows where to go.
(d) His dead family.

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

3. What will philosophy free according to Socrates?
(a) The soul.
(b) Fear.
(c) Feelings.
(d) The body.

4. What does Socrates say cannot contain a harmony?
(a) A harmony.
(b) The soul.
(c) The body.
(d) Philosophy.

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

6. Where does Socrates think the people of earth dwell?
(a) In the hollows of the earth.
(b) On its surface.
(c) In his caves.
(d) In its oceans.

7. What is there no greater evil than according to Socrates?
(a) Commerce.
(b) Hating reasonable discourse.
(c) Politics.
(d) Hating philosophy.

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

9. What groups can no one join if they have not practiced philosophy and do not leave this life pure?
(a) Enlightened.
(b) Contemplatives.
(c) Lawyers.
(d) Gods.

10. What souls hover over the earth according to Socrates?
(a) Souls that are looking over loved ones.
(b) Recently dead souls.
(c) Those attached to the body.
(d) Those not educated enough.

11. What does Socrates argue the soul lacks?
(a) Knowledge.
(b) Foresight.
(c) Love.
(d) Disharmony.

12. Why are the souls wandering the earth according to Socrates?
(a) Being infidel.
(b) Being perfect.
(c) Deceiving people.
(d) Poor upbringing.

13. What should the philosopher avoid according to Socrates?
(a) Bodily passions.
(b) Poison.
(c) Politics.
(d) Women.

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

15. How does Socrates try to uncover causes?
(a) Mathematics.
(b) The gods.
(c) The scientific method.
(d) His own method.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is virtue according to Socrates?

2. What analogy does Simmias abandon in 88c-95a?

3. What does the soul have when it leaves the body according to Socrates?

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

5. Who directs harmony according to Socrates' argument?

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