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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What nationality was Socrates?
(a) Italian.
(b) Greek.
(c) Roman.
(d) Persian.

2. Why does Socrates eventually refuse to help Strepsiades?
(a) Socrates turns Strepsiades over to the police.
(b) Strepsiades does not have the money to pay him.
(c) Strepsiades is too stupid.
(d) Socrates finds Strepsiades lacking in morals.

3. Who is the first person to accuse Socrates of corrupting the youth?
(a) Aristophanes.
(b) Plato.
(c) Meletus.
(d) Euthyphro.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Crito think about the justice or injustice of the trial? Why?

2. Why didn't Socrates bring his family to court?

3. What verdict does the jury deliver in Socrates' trial?

4. What does Socrates believe is the central question of life?

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

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