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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What types of stories, according to Socrates, ought we to read to children when they are very young?
(a) True ones with false elements.
(b) False ones (myths) that are not grounded in any truth.
(c) False ones (myths), with a true element.
(d) True ones with only true elements

3. Socrates claims that he learned about love from which of the following?
(a) Alcibides.
(b) Meno.
(c) Plato.
(d) Diotima.

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

5. Who is the surprise visitor to the symposium, and why does he come?
(a) There is no surprise visitor.
(b) Alcibiades comes because he is drunk and wants to seduce Socrates.
(c) Aristotle arrives late because he traveled farther than the others.
(d) Appolodorus comes because he is angry he wasn't invited.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who gives the first speech at the symposium?

2. Who said the following: "may not the art of which neither teachers nor disciples exist be assumed to be incapable of being taught?"

3. Socrates intends his imagined city to be taken as a symbolic model for__________.

4. Before Socrates delivers his speech, he cross- examines Agathon about which of the following?

5. How does Dimotia characterize love?

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