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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Aristophanes' Clouds.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Socrates, why would political life be dangerous for him?
(a) He would try to help everyone, and despair when he could not.
(b) Those who fight for justice are killed.
(c) He is too tempted by power.
(d) He would become too absorbed by the affection and attention.

2. Why does Strepsiades throw Pheidippides a party?
(a) Strepsiades is celebrating Pheidippides' passage into manhood.
(b) Pheidippides successfully tricked Strepsiades' creditors.
(c) Pheidippides has agreed to murder Socrates.
(d) Pheidippides is getting married.

3. Why does law have authority?
(a) Laws are inherently just.
(b) Citizens have an interdependence on laws, and so give them authority.
(c) Laws have authority because of the threat of violent punishment.
(d) Laws are inherently good.

4. What would happen if Socrates fled to a city that was poorly-governed?
(a) He might be able to establish a political career.
(b) He could take advantage of foolish people.
(c) He would be killed for a bounty.
(d) He could not live a good life.

5. What city does Euthyphro take place in?
(a) Attica.
(b) Sparta.
(c) Rome.
(d) Athens.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Socrates' prosecutor in his trial?

2. According to Socrates in Crito, what happens when individuals disagree on the matter of obeying or disobeying laws?

3. Why is Socrates heartened about the possibility of an afterlife?

4. What does Socrates ask the jury to believe about the gods in Apology?

5. At a party, over what subject do Strepsiades and Pheidippides fight?

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