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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is the character who narrates Symposium?
(a) Socrates.
(b) Agathon.
(c) Alcibides.
(d) Appolodorus.

2. 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.

3. To understand Ion's poetically inspired spirit, Socrates employs a metaphor of which of the following?
(a) An eye attempting to see itself, explaining how our mental visions are limited by the bounds of our brain.
(b) A newly born start to explain how small and insignificant our world is in the greater picture.
(c) A magnet to explain how a poet's inspiration moves from the muse to the audience.
(d) A dying animal to explain how the sole individual is part of a significant collective.

4. 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 proving to Meno that there are many commonly held virtues.
(c) By showing Meno that all men desire good things, but that not all men are virtuous.
(d) By giving Meno a solid definition of virtue.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Socrates concludes which of the following about virtue?

3. One large theme that permeates throughout Meno is:

4. Who gives the first speech at the symposium?

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

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