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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) Young and handsome though impulsive and arrogant.
(b) Old, thoughtful, and wise.
(c) Youthful, though ugly and shy.
(d) Middle- aged and curious.

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

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

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

5. Describe Thrasymachus' view of Socrates.
(a) He likes the Socratic method of reasoning.
(b) He hates Socrates and thinks Socrates is stupid.
(c) He chastizes Socrates for asking questions freely, but dodging them when he is asked a question himself.
(d) He can't follow Socrates' logic.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the dialogue, Meno blames the confusion in his speech on which of the following?

2. Though Glaucon is primarily concerned about justice within the individual, Socrates first begins by analyzing __________.

3. How does Thrasymachus first define justice?

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

5. Who is the last person to leave the symposium?

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