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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What makes a law just, according to Socrates?
(a) The authority of a city.
(b) Piety.
(c) Objective goodness.
(d) Popular opinion.

2. How convinced was Crito by the defense Socrates provided during his trial?
(a) He did not attend the trial.
(b) Very convinced.
(c) Not convinced at all.
(d) Somewhat convinced.

3. What relationship is Strepsiades to Pheidippides?
(a) Son to father.
(b) Uncle to nephew.
(c) Father to son.
(d) Friend to friend.

4. Pheidippides recites a text written by which man?
(a) Plato.
(b) Aristophanes.
(c) Euripides.
(d) Sophocles.

5. Which of the following terms best describes Pheidippides?
(a) Generous.
(b) Pious.
(c) Self-indulgent.
(d) Conservative.

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

7. What action does Strepsiades take with regards to Socrates at the end of Clouds?
(a) He steals all of Socrates' students away to a rival school.
(b) He beats up Socrates.
(c) He murders Socrates.
(d) He burns Socrates' institution.

8. Socrates and Crito agree that the individual should follow what?
(a) The law.
(b) Their in-the-moment emotions.
(c) The truth.
(d) Popular opinion.

9. What position does Strepsiades have in society?
(a) Playwright.
(b) Elder.
(c) Philosopher.
(d) Youth.

10. Why does Socrates believe obedience to the law could not represent disrespectful behavior?
(a) Law is a great authority on earth, and should be respected.
(b) The law is based upon the good, without question.
(c) Prisoners serving their sentence with honor have a certain nobility about them.
(d) Respecting one's death sentence is respecting death itself.

11. What stance does Strepsiades ultimately take in regards to Socrates' teachings?
(a) He rejects the teachings completely.
(b) He embraces them and starts his own school.
(c) He rejects them, but is always bothered by what might have been.
(d) He puts them to good use and becomes a lawyer.

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

13. How can Crito's emotional state during Socrates' trial be characterized?
(a) Happy.
(b) Embarrassed.
(c) Furious.
(d) Proud.

14. Why has Strepsiades run into financial difficulties?
(a) Strepsiades has no financial difficulties; in fact, he is wealthy.
(b) Strepsiades' son has been self-indulgent.
(c) Strepsiades has a weakness for gambling.
(d) Strepsiades paid dearly for an oracle's help.

15. What problem is Strepsiades dealing with at the beginning of The Clouds?
(a) He has a great crisis of faith.
(b) His mother has been murdered.
(c) He is fleeing from the law.
(d) He is overwhelmed with debt.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which is NOT one of the benefits of law, according to Socrates in Crito?

3. On which point in Crito does Socrates differ markedly from his position in Apology?

4. What would happen if Socrates fled to a city that was well-governed?

5. What is Aristophanes' general attitude toward Socrates?

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