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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Socrates claim about his relationship with his students?
(a) He has never claimed to teach, only to talk honestly.
(b) His students are all too stupid to do much damage.
(c) He makes them suffer only so he can teach them more.
(d) He has no students, and the trial is a complete farce.

2. 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.

3. What does Socrates discover when he speaks with and interviews "wise men"?
(a) He realized they were simply trying to get him to convert to worshiping Apollo.
(b) Wise men is where Socrates got all his knowledge from.
(c) They are nearly as intelligent as himself.
(d) He discovers they know nothing.

4. What is the overarching subject of Euthyphro?
(a) Pleasure.
(b) Intelligence.
(c) Piety.
(d) Love.

5. What happens when youthful Athenians follow Socrates' philosophical teachings?
(a) They suddenly refuse to speak to Socrates.
(b) They share this knowledge with their elders.
(c) They belittle and are rude to their elders.
(d) They try to create their own rival schools of philosophy.

Short Answer Questions

1. Euthyphro covers which section of Socrates' legal ordeal?

2. In Euthyphro, what problem does Socrates have with the suggestion that it is good to be dear to the gods?

3. Which god does Euthyphro admire above all others?

4. What is Socrates' second defense against the charge that he is corrupting youth?

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

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