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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 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. To Socrates, what would illegally breaking out of prison constitute?
(a) Justice.
(b) Piety.
(c) The rule of law.
(d) Retaliation.

3. What does Socrates tell the jury after his sentence is decided?
(a) His students will visit more harm upon the city than he ever could.
(b) He thanked them for their service to the community.
(c) He will have his revenge, if not in this life, then the next.
(d) He is truly sorry for what he did.

4. What is Socrates' definition of piety?
(a) Obeying due to fear of punishment.
(b) Rigorous, logical pursuit of the truth.
(c) Emulating the gods.
(d) Skillful service on behalf of the gods.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Who is Socrates' prosecutor in his trial?

4. Why does the dialogue in Euthyphro end?

5. What makes a law just, according to Socrates?

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