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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 Socrates meets Ion, Ion has just returned from which of the following?
(a) Agathon's drinking party.
(b) A game at the Coliseum.
(c) Socrates' trial.
(d) A poetry recital contest in Epidarus.

2. In Socrates' ideal city, poets and soothsayers:
(a) Would be considered useless and expelled.
(b) Would be rich while the workers would be poor.
(c) Would lead religious ceremonies.
(d) Would not be allowed to speak falsely about the gods.

3. What poet is cited by Cephalus to explain the paradox of old age?
(a) Shakespeare.
(b) Pindar.
(c) Homer.
(d) Petrach.

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

5. When Cephalus tends to his sacrifice, who immediately takes his place in conversation with Socrates?
(a) Polemarchus.
(b) Glaucon.
(c) Aristotle.
(d) Thrasymachus.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose side is Adeimantus on, at least in the beginning of the dialogue?

2. In Ion, Socrates concludes that Ion's ability to memorize poetry is which of the following?

3. From which poet does Polemarchus derive his definition of justice?

4. When he first meets Socrates, Meno asks the following question:

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

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