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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 Socrates ask the jury to believe about the gods in Apology?
(a) The gods are not divine, but human.
(b) The gods will care for those who are good.
(c) The gods appreciate regular sacrifice.
(d) The gods love scientists.

2. Where is Socrates kept prior to his sentence being carried out?
(a) Prison.
(b) Plato's home.
(c) He is under house arrest at his school.
(d) Crito's home.

3. What is the origin of the title The Clouds?
(a) Socrates claims that the only gods are the clouds.
(b) The Clouds is used as a metaphor to anything which blinds us in life.
(c) Socrates believes that rain is the cause of human suffering.
(d) Socrates believes that Zeus lives on a cloud.

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

5. Why does Strepsiades throw Pheidippides a party?
(a) Strepsiades is celebrating Pheidippides' passage into manhood.
(b) Pheidippides is getting married.
(c) Pheidippides has agreed to murder Socrates.
(d) Pheidippides successfully tricked Strepsiades' creditors.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the god which the majority of Athenians pray to as their primary god?

2. Socrates and Crito agree that the individual should follow what?

3. What does an "implicit contract agreement" require, according to Socrates in Crito?

4. Why doesn't Socrates try to argue about the principles of his philosophy with Crito?

5. Why does law have authority?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Socrates claims that laws result in what benefits to society?

5. How does Socrates, in Crito, state his case for why he will remain in jail and face his death sentence? What forms are in use?

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

7. What are the consequences of breaking the law?

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

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

10. How does Strepsiades react to Socrates' course of study in the Thinkery? How does Socrates in turn respond to Strepsiades?

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