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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Describe Meno's appearance and attitude when he meets Socrates.
(a) Old, thoughtful, and wise.
(b) Middle- aged and curious.
(c) Young and handsome though impulsive and arrogant.
(d) Youthful, though ugly and shy.

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

3. How does Socrates refute Polemarchus' definition of justice?
(a) Socrates asserts that doing evil, even to an evil man, makes the doer unjust.
(b) Socrates shows Polemarchus that every man is intrinsically free, regardless of the law.
(c) Socrates shows Polemarchus that stealing from the rich is unjust.
(d) Socrates reasons that it is impossible to determine what is fair in every situation.

4. Who says, at the very end of Book II, "I completely endorse these patterns, and I would enact them as laws"?
(a) Adeimantus.
(b) Thrasymachus.
(c) Socrates.
(d) Glaucon.

5. In Ion, Socrates is concerned primarily with which of the following?
(a) Distinguishing how we know things artistically from how we know things inspirationally.
(b) Ion's secret relationship with Agathon.
(c) Proving that Ion is not as smart as he is.
(d) Defining virtue by more than just examples of virtue.

Short Answer Questions

1. When pressed by Socrates to explain his skill, Ion asserts which of the following?

2. Which of the following does Socrates reason about poetry?

3. When Meno arrives in Athens, who is accompanying him?

4. Socrates concludes which of the following about virtue?

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

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