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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Socrates' stance on political activity?
(a) He heartily engages in politics.
(b) He only participates in politics at the request of his friends.
(c) He refrains from any political activity.
(d) He believes a supreme dictator is what's needed in Greece.

2. Who does Socrates believe speaks to him, as expressed in Euthyphro?
(a) Zeus.
(b) Plato.
(c) A being known as "the god."
(d) His deceased wife.

3. Who is Socrates' prosecutor in his trial?
(a) Kronos.
(b) Euthyphro.
(c) Meletus.
(d) Crito.

4. Why is Socrates wiser than anyone he knows?
(a) Because he knows all the best philosophers in Athens, including Plato.
(b) Because he knows that he knows nothing.
(c) Because of his powerful observational skills of the natural world.
(d) Because of his great understanding of physics and astronomy.

5. Why does Socrates say that he is not impious?
(a) He in fact believes in Zeus wholeheartedly.
(b) He believes there are cloud goddesses.
(c) He regularly speaks with the voice in his head.
(d) Meletus, in charging impiety, has contradicted himself.

6. 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.

7. What is Socrates' first defense against the charge that he is corrupting youth?
(a) He had only talked with elderly people at his school.
(b) He has no hand in making laws, which is what truly corrupts youth.
(c) If love is a crime, Socrates is guilty as charged.
(d) Youth is made for corruption; only later in life does one find morality.

8. What attitude has Meletus adopted about the trial of Socrates?
(a) He thinks the whole thing is a sham.
(b) He bears no opinion and avoids the issue.
(c) He is taking it quite seriously.
(d) He is stridently pro-Socrates.

9. Which segment of society is Socrates charged with having a bad influence on?
(a) Fellow philosophers.
(b) The elderly.
(c) Oracles.
(d) The youth.

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

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

12. What is Socrates' second defense against the charge that he is corrupting youth?
(a) If love is a crime, Socrates is guilty as charged.
(b) He wouldn't have corrupted youth knowingly, because he feared retaliation for his actions.
(c) Youth is made for corruption; only later in life does one find morality.
(d) He had only talked with elderly people at his school.

13. Why are many scientists accused of atheism, according to Socrates?
(a) They have never been properly exposed to religious concepts.
(b) It is yet another lie perpetrated by Meletus.
(c) Scientists will not accept religious explanations for things.
(d) Scientists must disavow Zeus in order to be admitted as a scientist.

14. The Euthyphro is a dialogue between which men?
(a) Socrates and Euthyphro.
(b) Plato and Socrates.
(c) Aristophanes and Cato.
(d) Zeus and Hades.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Socrates say about death and the divine voice in his head?

2. What topic does Socrates discuss to dismantle Euthyphro's initial definition of piety?

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

4. How does Socrates compare death to sleep?

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

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