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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Ion admits to Socrates that he can only recite one poet's work well, Socrates is puzzled by which of the following?
(a) Ion's hesitation to answer questions about his family.
(b) How Ion considers himself a philosopher.
(c) How an artistic skill can be limited in its expertise.
(d) Ion's desire to speak with Socrates about his work.

2. How does Thrasymachus first define justice?
(a) "Nothing other than the advantage of the stronger."
(b) "Being impartial and unbiased in all decisions."
(c) "Making laws to one's own disadvantage."
(d) "Acting selflessly, so that the kingdom may prosper."

3. Which of the following does Socrates reason about Ion?
(a) Ion is a handsome, though misguided poet.
(b) Ion is sad when his crowds are sad and happy when his crowds are happy.
(c) Ion must be outside his mind when he recites poetry.
(d) Ion knows more than Socrates.

4. 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?"
(a) "I don't understand your question."
(b) "I should say that bees must differ from one another, as bees."
(c) "I should answer that bees do not differ from one another, as bees."
(d) "They're just bees. Who cares?"

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Polemarchus define justice?

2. How does Dimotia characterize love?

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

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

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

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