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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the danger of disobeying an unjust law?
(a) Doing so undermines the authority that provides just laws.
(b) You are in danger of impiety.
(c) Your reputation may suffer unnecessarily.
(d) There is no danger in defying injustice.

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

3. According to Socrates in Crito, what happens when individuals disagree on the matter of obeying or disobeying laws?
(a) A new law is crafted from the synthesis of the two positions.
(b) They usually cannot convince one another of the other's position.
(c) The argument usually ends in violence.
(d) One will usually break the law in defiance of the other.

4. How does Socrates try to prove that the Athenian definition of corruption is defective?
(a) By asking the prosecution to produce concrete evidence of the alleged corruption.
(b) By calling forth a large number of his students to testify.
(c) By arguing that laws are meant to be broken.
(d) By showing that he pursues a good life in a proper way.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Socrates have Euthyphro agree about, in regards to love?

2. How convinced was Crito by the defense Socrates provided during his trial?

3. What does Socrates believe about the concept of objective truth?

4. How can Crito's emotional state during Socrates' trial be characterized?

5. What is Socrates' stance with respect to his sentence?

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