Great Dialogues Quiz | Two Week Quiz A

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Great Dialogues Quiz | Two Week Quiz A

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Socrates concludes which of the following about virtue?
(a) If it can be taught then it is knowledge.
(b) It cannot be taught and is therefore not knowledge.
(c) If it manifests differently in different people, than it cannot have one definition.
(d) If it is the same in everyone, then we should be able to define it.

2. Who is Glaucon?
(a) Socrates' son.
(b) One of the interlocutors.
(c) The ideal solider.
(d) Not philosophically ambitious.

3. What must the philosopher, according to Socrates in Book VI, employ in order to attain knowledge of "absolute good"?
(a) Hypotheses about what is good in the world.
(b) Guessing and hoping he gets lucky.
(c) Judgment against "absolute evil."
(d) Public opinion of theoretical subjects.

4. In the dialogue, Meno blames the confusion in his speech on which of the following?
(a) Socrates, because Socrates is deliberately confusing Meno about a subject which Meno thought he knew.
(b) Himself, because he has not had ample time to prepare for a deep conversation.
(c) Himself, because he does not think himself a good exemplar of what virtue is.
(d) Socrates, because Socrates is not listening to Meno's points.

5. According to Socrates, what would be one way for philosopher-rule to commence?
(a) If a philosopher raised an army and instigated a revolution.
(b) To convince the people through reasoning that philosophers make better leaders.
(c) Assassination of the present emperor.
(d) If a philosopher's soul was born to the son of a king destined to inherit his father's position.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Socrates, what are the two ways of training the soul?

2. According to Socrates, what happens when "one [is] mistaken in his judgment, and harms his friends, and helps his enemies, unknowingly"?

3. If led by true philosophers, Socrates argues that the republic would__________________.

4. Who are the rulers in Socrates' republic?

5. What definition of virtue do Meno and Socrates borrow from "the poets"?

(see the answer key)

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