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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What definition of virtue do Meno and Socrates borrow from "the poets"?
(a) Virtue is different for every person.
(b) Virtue is the desire and power to obtain good things.
(c) Virtue, like other abstract notions, resists our best attempts to define it.
(d) Virtue is the unmoved mover of all things.

2. Which of the following ideas are not mentioned in Book VI?
(a) The intellectual life of the philosopher is very rigorous.
(b) Learning is a process of recalling past knowledge.
(c) Philosophers can do good and evil.
(d) Hypotheses are helpful, but only when you cannot apprehend an idea without an example.

3. How does Polemarchus define justice?
(a) Being fair in all contexts.
(b) Stealing from the rich and giving to the poor.
(c) Allowing each man to live his life freely.
(d) Doing good to one's friends and evil to one's enemies.

4. Who is Socrates walking with when he is stopped by a group of men urging him to come to Cephalus' house?
(a) Thrasymachus.
(b) Meno.
(c) Plato.
(d) Glaucon.

5. How does Socrates refute Polemarchus' definition of justice?
(a) Socrates reasons that it is impossible to determine what is fair in every situation.
(b) Socrates shows Polemarchus that every man is intrinsically free, regardless of the law.
(c) Socrates asserts that doing evil, even to an evil man, makes the doer unjust.
(d) Socrates shows Polemarchus that stealing from the rich is unjust.

Short Answer Questions

1. The common man is not concerned with beauty itself, but ___________.

2. Why does Socrates discuss Asclepius' philosophy?

3. In Socrates' republic, judges must__________.

4. Why is Socrates worried about literature which contains wayward characters?

5. Adeimantus interrupts Socrates in the beginning of Book VI to ask him ____________.

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