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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 Crito think Socrates displayed during his trial?
(a) Betrayal.
(b) Cowardice.
(c) Nobility.
(d) Wisdom.
2. Why does law have authority?
(a) Citizens have an interdependence on laws, and so give them authority.
(b) Laws are inherently good.
(c) Laws have authority because of the threat of violent punishment.
(d) Laws are inherently just.
3. Aristophanes' portrayal of Socrates would most closely match whose perception of Socrates?
(a) Aristotle.
(b) Crito.
(c) Plato.
(d) The average citizen of Athens.
4. Who are the characters in Crito?
(a) Crito, Socrates, and Meletus.
(b) Socrates.
(c) Plato, Aristotle, Socrates, Eideron, and Crito.
(d) Crito and Socrates.
5. Why does Strepsiades seek out Socrates?
(a) To teach him how to be a better speaker.
(b) To teach him how to be a better lover.
(c) To find sanctuary from his pursuers.
(d) Because Socrates owes him money.
Short Answer Questions
1. What do Crito and Socrates agree upon in regards to retaliation?
2. Which of the following is true about Socrates' possible disobeying of a law, according to Socrates in Crito?
3. What is Socrates' stance with respect to his sentence?
4. What is the danger of disobeying an unjust law?
5. Why does Socrates eventually refuse to help Strepsiades?
Short Essay Questions
1. What are the consequences of breaking the law?
2. Why did Socrates offer such a meek defense and go to prison and his death so willingly?
3. Socrates claims that laws result in what benefits to society?
4. How does Aristophanes' general attitude towards Socrates differ from that of Plato's?
5. What is Socrates' response to Crito when Crito worries about Socrates' reputation?
6. Given Crito's criticism of Socrates, what segment of society can Crito be said to represent?
7. 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?
8. Who is Strepsiades? Why does he enter Socrates' Thinkery?
9. According to Socrates, why must experts always be obeyed?
10. What gives law authority, according to Socrates?
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