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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Apology.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Socrates firmly believes that poets ______________.
(a) Are correct about the afterlife.
(b) Should be banished from his city.
(c) Know exactly of what they are speaking.
(d) Should be allowed to recite in the streets.

4. Who is the last person to leave the symposium?
(a) Diotima.
(b) Aristophenes.
(c) Socrates.
(d) Appolodorus.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In the then-present Greece, Socrates believes that __________.

2. In order to respond to Glaucon's objections, Socrates ___________________.

3. To Socrates, government is best analogized as being similar to the human _________.

4. What analogies does Socrates employ to refute Thrasymachus' position on justice?

5. What definition of virtue do Meno and Socrates borrow from "the poets"?

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