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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 4, The Crito: Chapter 1, Introduction & Crito.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Crito offer Socrates?
(a) Money.
(b) A safe place to escape to.
(c) A more comfortable place to spend his final days.
(d) An overturned sentence.

2. Why are the Socratic dialogues still studied, according to Tarrant?
(a) They are challenging for students to comprehend.
(b) The information contained in the dialogues is still relevant.
(c) Because scholars still don't completely understand them.
(d) They must be mastered before other important material from the same time period can be studied.

3. What was Socrates doing when Crito arrived?
(a) Praying.
(b) Sleeping.
(c) Writing.
(d) Eating.

4. Who provides the information contained in the notes of Book 1, Chapter 1?
(a) Plato.
(b) Professional editors and scholars.
(c) Socrates.
(d) The translator.

5. How did Socrates pay for his education?
(a) He didn't - he educated himself by talking to learned men.
(b) He tutored the children of rich aristocrats.
(c) He borrowed money from a bank.
(d) He lectured at universities.

Short Answer Questions

1. What made Socrates sure that he had been doing Apollo's will?

2. What was the other possibility that Socrates contemplated regarding the afterlife?

3. According to Crito's dialogue with Socrates, who had the right to control a given set of circumstances, or a relationship?

4. What was Euthyphro's relationship to the victim?

5. How did Socrates describe himself?

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