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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. Which is NOT one of the consequences of breaking a law according to Socrates?
(a) Corruption of the soul.
(b) Finality, and the reduction of the threat of retaliation.
(c) The lessened ability for laws to serve their purpose.
(d) Undermining of general authority.

2. Which of the following is NOT one of the character traits of Socrates in The Clouds?
(a) Deceitful.
(b) Immoral.
(c) Iconoclastic.
(d) Pious.

3. Aristophanes' portrayal of Socrates would most closely match whose perception of Socrates?
(a) Aristotle.
(b) Plato.
(c) Crito.
(d) The average citizen of Athens.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What plan does Crito have for Socrates?

2. In The Clouds, what does Socrates feel about Zeus?

3. What does Strepsiades think about the education Socrates offers him?

4. What is the correct chronology of Socratic dialogues?

5. Why does Socrates eventually refuse to help Strepsiades?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the nature of the fight Strepsiades and Pheidippides have when Strepsiades throws a party for his son?

2. What gives law authority, according to Socrates?

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

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

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

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

7. What is Socrates' attitude toward his impending death at the end of Crito?

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

9. What violent action does Pheidippides visit upon his father? How does Pheidippides justify his action?

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

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