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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Plato's Crito.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Socrates, when pursuing the truth, a person should defer to what authority?
(a) A religious leader.
(b) A political leader.
(c) A person should not defer to any authority.
(d) A social reformer.

2. What is the name for Athens' hall of heroes?
(a) The Coliseum.
(b) The Prytaneum.
(c) The Krytaniken.
(d) The Acropolis.

3. The Euthyphro is a dialogue between which men?
(a) Zeus and Hades.
(b) Aristophanes and Cato.
(c) Socrates and Euthyphro.
(d) Plato and Socrates.

4. What does Socrates have Euthyphro agree about, in regards to love?
(a) Love, like the top of Mount Olympus, can never truly be known.
(b) Things that are loved, are loved because they are loved by someone.
(c) Love is the mutual lack of disrespect between two people.
(d) Love always depends on exactly three parties.

5. How does Socrates end the Crito dialogue?
(a) Plotting with Crito to break out of prison.
(b) Confined to his school, awaiting his sentence.
(c) Resigned to prison.
(d) Saying goodbye to several of his prized students.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Socrates' respond to Crito's worry over Socrates' reputation?

2. What does Socrates tell his friends and supporters after his sentence is decided?

3. According to Socrates, what is dangerous about the conclusion that human good is related to what is dear to the gods?

4. What ultimate sentence is handed down by the jury?

5. How does Socrates try to prove that the Athenian definition of corruption is defective?

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