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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is a symposium?
(a) An all- night drinking party where various elite Greeks discuss the meaning of love.
(b) An outdoor gathering of philosophers near a nobleman's residence.
(c) A small club of Sophists.
(d) An ancient restaurant.

3. Who is Socrates walking with when he is stopped by a group of men urging him to come to Cephalus' house?
(a) Thrasymachus.
(b) Glaucon.
(c) Plato.
(d) Meno.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Socrates tell Ion about a person who can recite poetry well?

2. Who is Eryximachus?

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

4. One large theme that permeates throughout Meno is:

5. Socrates concludes which of the following about virtue?

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