1. 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) "They're just bees. Who cares?"
(d) "I should answer that bees do not differ from one another, as bees."

2. What analogies does Socrates employ to refute Thrasymachus' position on justice?
(a) He compares democracy to dictatorship and aristocracy.
(b) He compares the skill of a leader to the respective skills of a doctor, house-builder, and sailor.
(c) He compares a money-maker to a philosopher and a clergyman.
(d) He compares justice to food, both nourishing the soul.

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

4. What does Socrates tell Ion about a person who can recite poetry well?
(a) Only a person who understands a poem's meaning could be a good reciter.
(b) Ion should memorize philosophy instead of poetry.
(c) Memorizing poetry is a way of balancing the soul.
(d) Ion must not know the meaning of poetry if he just memorizes it.

5. Who gives the first speech at the symposium?
(a) Phaedrus.
(b) Agathon.
(c) Socrates.
(d) Eryximachus.