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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Ion is renowned for his ability to recite which famous poet?
(a) Shakespeare.
(b) Socrates.
(c) Aristophanes.
(d) Homer.

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

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

4. When he first meets Socrates, Meno asks the following question:
(a) How do we know if what we are seeing in the physical world actually exists?
(b) Is justice necessarily a good thing?
(c) Is virtue taught, or is it inherent to good people?
(d) Where he can learn how to be a philosopher?

5. How does Socrates rebut the definition of virtue offered by the poets?
(a) By instructing Meno that it is impossible to have an abstract entity which moves other things but does not move itself.
(b) By showing Meno that all men desire good things, but that not all men are virtuous.
(c) By proving to Meno that there are many commonly held virtues.
(d) By giving Meno a solid definition of virtue.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Socrates meets Ion, Ion has just returned from which of the following?

2. Which of the following does Socrates reason about Ion?

3. How does Thrasymachus first define justice?

4. According to Socrates, what happens when "one [is] mistaken in his judgment, and harms his friends, and helps his enemies, unknowingly"?

5. Socrates claims that he learned about love from which of the following?

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