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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Socrates end the Crito dialogue?
(a) Confined to his school, awaiting his sentence.
(b) Plotting with Crito to break out of prison.
(c) Resigned to prison.
(d) Saying goodbye to several of his prized students.

2. What relationship is Crito to Socrates?
(a) Student.
(b) Friend.
(c) Detractor.
(d) Legal counsel.

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

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

5. What does Crito think about the justice or injustice of the trial? Why?
(a) The trial was unjust, because Meletus the prosecutor tricked the jury.
(b) The trial was just, because Socrates deserved his fate, given his lackluster defense.
(c) The trial was unjust, because Socrates didn't do his proper duty to defend himself.
(d) The trial was just, because Socrates was truly guilty.

6. On which point in Crito does Socrates differ markedly from his position in Apology?
(a) On the strength of his piety.
(b) On the certainty of his wisdom.
(c) On what it is to be a just law.
(d) On the importance of reputation.

7. How does Pheidippides justify his violent action toward Strepsiades?
(a) He had no reason; he just did it for fun.
(b) The wise should make the foolish suffer to improve them.
(c) Strepsiades mocked Pheidippides' mother, and Strepsiades deserved it.
(d) He claims he did it only accidentally.

8. Aristophanes is known for using what kind of rhetoric?
(a) Sentimentality.
(b) Parody.
(c) Black humor.
(d) Satire.

9. What do experts have to do with laws?
(a) Universal laws of wisdom are the exclusive domain of the expert.
(b) Only experts are able to tell when the law is broken.
(c) Law is derived from expertise.
(d) Experts are called upon to evaluate laws.

10. What is the danger of disobeying an unjust law?
(a) There is no danger in defying injustice.
(b) Doing so undermines the authority that provides just laws.
(c) You are in danger of impiety.
(d) Your reputation may suffer unnecessarily.

11. What does Socrates try to teach Strepsiades?
(a) Most everything.
(b) Just astronomy.
(c) Just theology.
(d) Just argumentation.

12. At the end of Clouds, what does Strepsiades believe about Zeus?
(a) Zeus is important in holding the community together.
(b) Zeus does not exist.
(c) Zeus exists, but does not meddle in the affairs of man.
(d) Zeus exists to destroy and ruin human lives.

13. Which god advises Strepsiades with respect to his faith?
(a) Hephaestus.
(b) Apollo.
(c) Hermes.
(d) Zeus.

14. What is the correct chronology of Socratic dialogues?
(a) Apology, Euthyphro, Crito.
(b) Apology, Crito, Euthyphro.
(c) Euthyphro, Apology, Crito.
(d) Euthyphro, Crito, Apology.

15. How many years after The Clouds did the trial of Socrates happen?
(a) One-hundred and eight.
(b) Twenty-four.
(c) Five.
(d) Two.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Socrates illustrating with his choice to stay in Athens rather than flee?

2. What would happen if Socrates fled to a city that was poorly-governed?

3. Which side does Aristophanes take in the conflict with Socrates?

4. Which is NOT one of the consequences of breaking a law according to Socrates?

5. How would Aristophanes characterize the religious belief of Socrates?

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