View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. How would Aristophanes characterize the religious belief of Socrates?
(a) Anarchist.
(b) Atheist.
(c) Polytheist.
(d) Deist.

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

5. How does Socrates' respond to Crito's worry over Socrates' reputation?
(a) Socrates pleads with Crito to restore his legacy.
(b) Socrates shares Crito's concern.
(c) Regardless of reputation, he must obey the law.
(d) Socrates actually wants his reputation to be as bad as possible.

Short Answer Questions

1. Aristophanes is from which city?

2. Where is Socrates kept prior to his sentence being carried out?

3. What is the result of Pheidippides' time with Socrates?

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

5. In The Clouds, why does Socrates reject tradition?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How can Aristophanes' characterization of Socrates be summed up?

3. What is the nature of Strepsiades' most pressing problem? What does he hope to learn from Socrates? What does Socrates in turn teach him?

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

5. How does Pheidippides enter the Thinkery? What does he learn there?

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

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

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

10. What is Crito's opinion of Socrates, following his trial?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 873 words (approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample