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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which would not alter the public's view of Socrates?
(a) Truth.
(b) Appeal.
(c) Acquittal.
(d) Death.

2. How did Socrates die?
(a) Torn apart by lions.
(b) Hanging.
(c) Poison.
(d) Starvation.

3. Socrates does not want to be seen as being a _____________.
(a) Fool.
(b) Blowhard.
(c) Traitor.
(d) Nitwit.

4. What is it that philosophers dread?
(a) Debate.
(b) Ambivalence.
(c) Disgrace.
(d) Lack of knowledge.

5. The topic of beauty is considered to be which of the following?
(a) Irrelavant.
(b) Absolute.
(c) Objective.
(d) Subjective.

6. According to the visitor, Socrates would be guilty of which of the following?
(a) Betrayal.
(b) Truth.
(c) Fortitude.
(d) Mistrust.

7. When does one become acquainted with absolutes?
(a) Confirmation.
(b) Marriage.
(c) Death.
(d) Birth.

8. Socrates refers to humans as being _____________.
(a) Angry.
(b) Lusty.
(c) Foolish.
(d) Unwilling.

9. What would a legal term be for Socrates' death?
(a) Manslaughter.
(b) Homocide.
(c) Suicide.
(d) Malfeasance.

10. Where do absolutes exist?
(a) Mind.
(b) Body.
(c) Ether.
(d) Soul.

11. To which is death compared?
(a) Sleeping.
(b) Birth.
(c) Unconsciousness.
(d) Realization.

12. Where did the classical perspective of thinking originate?
(a) Greece.
(b) Japan.
(c) Egypt.
(d) Italy.

13. What type of social creature is mentioned?
(a) Otter.
(b) Quail.
(c) Ant.
(d) Rabbit.

14. In this section the philosophers study Socrates' theory of ____________.
(a) Denial.
(b) Absolutes.
(c) Truth.
(d) Opposites.

15. What does Socrates reveal to the visitor?
(a) Poison.
(b) Conspiracy theory.
(c) Plan for escape.
(d) Prophetic dream.

Short Answer Questions

1. The visitor proposes ________________.

2. Socrates infers that he believes in which of the following?

3. What is not experienced by a "true" philosopher?

4. Who is the questioner in the beginning of this Dialogue?

5. Absolutes are linked to the origins of which of the following?

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