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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Socrates think is the highest form of art according to his conversation with Cebes?
(a) Writing.
(b) Philosophy.
(c) Painting.
(d) Sculpting.

2. What type of men resent dying according to Cebes?
(a) Fearless.
(b) Pious.
(c) Wise.
(d) Powerful.

3. According to Socrates, what do the ones who love wisdom desire?
(a) Be where true wisdom is.
(b) Learn wisdom from Socrates.
(c) Marry and have children to test them.
(d) Ignore wisdom until they die.

4. What does Simmias tell Socrates about the ideas of the Just, the Beautiful and the Good?
(a) He applies them every day.
(b) Only children can follow them.
(c) They are for women.
(d) He never saw them.

5. What does Socrates say the philosopher separates?
(a) The body and the soul.
(b) The grain from the hay.
(c) The men and the women.
(d) Family and business.

Short Answer Questions

1. What condition does Cebes put forth for Socrates' conclusion to be valid?

2. How did Socrates die according to the account of the event?

3. Who recounts Socrates' death at the start of "Phaedo"?

4. What is recollection produced by according to Socrates?

5. What does purification consist of according to Socrates?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Cebes ask about committing suicide and what does Socrates admit?

2. What does Socrates say to defend death?

3. Why was Socrates held in jail before his execution?

4. What does Socrates wonder about in regards to knowledge?

5. What does Socrates say should be the one goal of the philosopher?

6. What must man do in order to attain pure knowledge?

7. What does Echecrates ask Phaedo at the beginning of "Phaedo"?

8. What does recollection imply about similarity?

9. On the day Socrates was to die, who did Socrates stand before and why?

10. What does the theory of opposites imply about dead things at the end of 66b-72e?

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