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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. According to The Clouds, what force holds communities and families together?
(a) Intellectual rigor.
(b) The oracle at Delphi.
(c) A faith in Zeus.
(d) Charity.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. To Socrates, what would illegally breaking out of prison constitute?

2. What is the correct chronology of Socratic dialogues?

3. Aristophanes is known for using what kind of rhetoric?

4. What is Socrates' stance with respect to his sentence?

5. When is an expert undermined?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did Socrates offer such a meek defense and go to prison and his death so willingly?

2. What is Crito in relationship to Apology? What is the setting and premise of Crito?

3. How does Socrates use the notion of a contract to reinforce his opinion that obeying the law is necessary?

4. To what degree did The Clouds shape public perception of Socrates?

5. How does Aristophanes' general attitude towards Socrates differ from that of Plato's?

6. What is Socrates' response to Crito when Crito worries about Socrates' reputation?

7. According to Socrates, why must experts always be obeyed?

8. What does Aristophanes accuse Socrates of in The Clouds?

9. How does Socrates' conception of the law and justice in Crito compare to his conception of law and justice in Apology?

10. Who is Strepsiades? Why does he enter Socrates' Thinkery?

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