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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the jury get to decide the sentence for Socrates?
(a) The prosecution provides the sentence.
(b) The mayor provides the sentence.
(c) No matter the crime, the penalty is death.
(d) They choose between two proposed sentences.

2. Why didn't Socrates bring his family to court?
(a) He thought the jury would hate him for the gesture.
(b) He did not want to garner pity.
(c) He did not want to look at his children and cry.
(d) He did not want to pay for the extra lodging costs.

3. What does Socrates believe is the central question of life?
(a) What is it all for?
(b) How does one acquire knowledge?
(c) What is the meaning of piety?
(d) How should one live one's life?

4. Why does Socrates believe obedience to the law could not represent disrespectful behavior?
(a) Prisoners serving their sentence with honor have a certain nobility about them.
(b) Respecting one's death sentence is respecting death itself.
(c) The law is based upon the good, without question.
(d) Law is a great authority on earth, and should be respected.

5. What explains Socrates' stance on political activity?
(a) He listens to his friends.
(b) He listens to his students.
(c) His father, a politician, was killed because of his position.
(d) A divine voice in his head told him how to behave.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. According to Socrates, when pursuing the truth, a person should defer to what authority?

3. What does Euthyphro believe about local teachings about Zeus?

4. What happens when youthful Athenians follow Socrates' philosophical teachings?

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

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