Great Dialogues Quiz | Four Week Quiz A

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Great Dialogues Quiz | Four Week Quiz A

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Socrates, what happens when "one [is] mistaken in his judgment, and harms his friends, and helps his enemies, unknowingly"?
(a) He claims to know justice, but doesn't.
(b) It doesn't matter; one would never do this.
(c) He is just.
(d) He is unjust.

2. Socrates intends his imagined city to be taken as a symbolic model for__________.
(a) Justice personified.
(b) Collective consciousness.
(c) The individual soul.
(d) The natural animal kingdom.

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

4. To understand Ion's poetically inspired spirit, Socrates employs a metaphor of which of the following?
(a) A newly born start to explain how small and insignificant our world is in the greater picture.
(b) A magnet to explain how a poet's inspiration moves from the muse to the audience.
(c) An eye attempting to see itself, explaining how our mental visions are limited by the bounds of our brain.
(d) A dying animal to explain how the sole individual is part of a significant collective.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose stories does Socrates think dangerous for the moral turpitude of his city's citizens?

2. How does Thrasymachus first define justice?

3. When Socrates meets Ion, Ion has just returned from which of the following?

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

5. Socrates claims that he learned about love from which of the following?

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