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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Describe Thrasymachus' view of Socrates.
(a) He can't follow Socrates' logic.
(b) He hates Socrates and thinks Socrates is stupid.
(c) He chastizes Socrates for asking questions freely, but dodging them when he is asked a question himself.
(d) He likes the Socratic method of reasoning.

3. Though Glaucon is primarily concerned about justice within the individual, Socrates first begins by analyzing __________.
(a) Glaucon's own virtue.
(b) Justice as it relates to a small family.
(c) Justice as it relates to an entire city's population.
(d) Virtue as it is demanded of the city's leaders.

4. One large theme that permeates throughout Meno is:
(a) Non- virtuous people can still perform virtuous actions
(b) A proposition can only be deemed valid if it is testable in the empirical world.
(c) Learning is really a recollection of old knowledge.
(d) There can never be universal ethics.

5. According to Socrates' insinuation, artistic knowledge is characterized as which of the following?
(a) Subjective.
(b) Ironic.
(c) Universal.
(d) Useless.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Socrates' view of justice, a ruler should always:

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

3. Who gives the first speech at the symposium?

4. What is a symposium?

5. How does Meno respond to Socrates' question: "Do bees differ as bees, because there are many different kinds of them; or, are they not rather to be distinguished by some other quality, as for example beauty, size, or shape?"

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