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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When asked how to overcome the difficulty in the debate, what did Socrates suggest?
(a) Assistance.
(b) Getting an impartial observer to decide the winner.
(c) Accepting defeat graciously.
(d) Giving up.

2. What happened to Socrates after his trial?
(a) His sentence was commuted.
(b) His execution was delayed.
(c) His method of execution was changed.
(d) He was caught and brought back to Athens.

3. Who lost control of his emotions at Socrates' execution?
(a) Crito.
(b) Echecrates.
(c) Appollonius.
(d) Phaedo.

4. Why did Socrates ask Crito to be cautious?
(a) So that Crito didn't implicate himself.
(b) So that the two could determine their own, and one another's, beliefs about what is just.
(c) So that Socrates' friends didn't discover his escape plot.
(d) So that the guards wouldn't overhear them.

5. According to Tarrant, why did Socrates submit so easily to his sentencing?
(a) He chose it over being banished.
(b) He had a terminal illness.
(c) It afforded him some control.
(d) He had no will to live.

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

7. Crito first attempted to persuade Socrates with what type of argument?
(a) Intellectual.
(b) Emotional.
(c) Philosophical.
(d) Moral.

8. Who was on Socrates' team in the debate at the end of Book 5, Chapter 2?
(a) Phaedo.
(b) Simmias.
(c) Cebes.
(d) Crito.

9. Crito and Socrates agreed that what action is always unjust?
(a) Doing a just thing for the wrong reasons.
(b) Judging another person.
(c) Harming others.
(d) Avoiding one's punishment.

10. Why did Crito come to visit Socrates?
(a) Out of friendship.
(b) Socrates owed him money.
(c) He hoped to prevent Socrates' execution.
(d) He wanted to take care of Socrates' family after his death.

11. What does the term "philosopher" mean?
(a) Educated person.
(b) Inquisitor.
(c) Purveyor of knowledge.
(d) Lover of wisdom.

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

13. Why did Socrates plead with Crito to listen to his reasoning?
(a) Socrates wanted Crito to point out the flaws in his reasoning so he would be able to change his mind without guilt.
(b) Because Socrates wanted Crito to be at peace with the decision that Socrates had made.
(c) Socrates wanted to reassure Crito that he was making the right choice.
(d) Socrates just wanted to have a good philosophical debate.

14. What is misanthropy?
(a) Hatred of people.
(b) Committing a social blunder.
(c) Hatred of women.
(d) Lack of social skills.

15. What metaphor does Tarrant use to describe the different mentalities in the Phaedo?
(a) A child and his father.
(b) A student and his teacher.
(c) A slave and his master.
(d) Two siblings in a rival relationship.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Crito and Socrates, is it just to harm another person if it is purely in retaliation?

2. What were Socrates and his partner debating about at the end of Book 5, Chapter 2?

3. According to Socrates' friends, what happens when someone learns something?

4. What did the Pythagoreans conclude about the nature of matter?

5. In what area of thought did the Pythagorean school excel?

(see the answer keys)

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