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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 of the following terms best describes Pheidippides?
(a) Generous.
(b) Conservative.
(c) Pious.
(d) Self-indulgent.
2. How can Crito's emotional state during Socrates' trial be characterized?
(a) Embarrassed.
(b) Proud.
(c) Happy.
(d) Furious.
3. What plan does Crito have for Socrates?
(a) Crito plans to murder Socrates in order to put him out of his misery.
(b) Crito has an escape plan to break out of prison.
(c) Crito plans to appeal to the higher court.
(d) Crito plans to launch an aggressive support campaign in town.
4. What text does Pheidippides recite at the party Strepsiades throws for him?
(a) A dialogue in which Plato is humiliated by Socrates.
(b) A poem about thievery.
(c) A play about rape.
(d) A poem about incest.
5. What action does Strepsiades take with regards to Socrates at the end of Clouds?
(a) He beats up Socrates.
(b) He burns Socrates' institution.
(c) He murders Socrates.
(d) He steals all of Socrates' students away to a rival school.
Short Answer Questions
1. What violent action does Pheidippides visit upon Strepsiades?
2. Who wrote The Clouds?
3. Why does Strepsiades seek out Socrates?
4. What is Socrates' stance with respect to his sentence?
5. What does Strepsiades think about the education Socrates offers him?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does Socrates' conception of the law and justice in Crito compare to his conception of law and justice in Apology?
2. According to Socrates, why must one not commit injustices?
3. How does Pheidippides enter the Thinkery? What does he learn there?
4. What reasons does Socrates give for deciding to remain in Athens, rather than escape with Crito?
5. What is Crito in relationship to Apology? What is the setting and premise of Crito?
6. How does Aristophanes' general attitude towards Socrates differ from that of Plato's?
7. In Apology, what is Socrates' message in a final speech, both to his jurors and to those who defended him?
8. 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?
9. What is Socrates' attitude toward his impending death at the end of Crito?
10. Given Crito's criticism of Socrates, what segment of society can Crito be said to represent?
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