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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Republic: Book IX.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do Socrates' interlocutors object to in the beginning of Book V?
(a) All children and women should be shared (and raised) in common.
(b) All property would be owned by a family.
(c) Children must be born on the 7th of the month.
(d) They do not give Socrates any objections until later in the dialogue.

2. According to Socrates' radical math, the tyrant's life is 729 times________.
(a) Less pleasant than the philosopher's life.
(b) More worthy than an elected leader's life.
(c) Less exciting than the soldier's life.
(d) More laudable than the common man's life.

3. The common man is not concerned with beauty itself, but ___________.
(a) He concerns himself with only practical matters.
(b) He is concerned with beautiful things.
(c) He is concerned for his soul.
(d) He is concerned with more abstract notions.

4. Whom does Socrates think is the fourth (and least) happiest social class of man in the republic?
(a) The aristocrat.
(b) The tyrant.
(c) The king.
(d) The democratic man.

5. What analogies does Socrates employ to refute Thrasymachus' position on justice?
(a) He compares the skill of a leader to the respective skills of a doctor, house-builder, and sailor.
(b) He compares justice to food, both nourishing the soul.
(c) He compares a money-maker to a philosopher and a clergyman.
(d) He compares democracy to dictatorship and aristocracy.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Socrates' opinion, what is the third happiest social class of man in the world?

2. When Cephalus tends to his sacrifice, who immediately takes his place in conversation with Socrates?

3. What are the soldiers of the republic explicitly forbidden to do, according to Socrates?

4. How does Socrates refute Polemarchus' definition of justice?

5. According to Socrates, woman can____________.

(see the answer key)

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