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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 in Crito, what happens when individuals disagree on the matter of obeying or disobeying laws?
(a) They usually cannot convince one another of the other's position.
(b) The argument usually ends in violence.
(c) One will usually break the law in defiance of the other.
(d) A new law is crafted from the synthesis of the two positions.

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

3. According to Socrates, the philosopher who tells the truth ... ?
(a) Will be hated.
(b) Will be loved.
(c) Will be feared.
(d) Does not exist.

4. What text does Pheidippides recite at the party Strepsiades throws for him?
(a) A play about rape.
(b) A poem about incest.
(c) A dialogue in which Plato is humiliated by Socrates.
(d) A poem about thievery.

5. What does an "implicit contract agreement" require, according to Socrates in Crito?
(a) Upholding one's reputation.
(b) Being pious.
(c) Being just.
(d) Obeying the law.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is "true speech" often not persuasive?

2. Why does Socrates believe he may lose his trial from the very start?

3. Why has Strepsiades run into financial difficulties?

4. Why does the Athenian community treat Euthyphro with contempt and derision?

5. Why does Socrates compare himself to a subhuman pest?

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