Great Dialogues Quiz | Eight Week Quiz B

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 177 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

Great Dialogues Quiz | Eight Week Quiz B

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 177 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Republic: Book I.

Multiple Choice Questions

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 should say that bees must differ from one another, as bees."
(b) "I should answer that bees do not differ from one another, as bees."
(c) "They're just bees. Who cares?"
(d) "I don't understand your question."

2. Who is Eryximachus?
(a) A poet who argues that men and woman were once fused beings.
(b) The last speaker and surprise guest at the symposium.
(c) A philosopher who attacks Pausanias' postion.
(d) A doctor who argues that love is like a medicine curing life's ailments.

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

4. 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 magnet to explain how a poet's inspiration moves from the muse to the audience.
(c) A dying animal to explain how the sole individual is part of a significant collective.
(d) A newly born start to explain how small and insignificant our world is in the greater picture.

5. How does Socrates refute Polemarchus' definition of justice?
(a) Socrates asserts that doing evil, even to an evil man, makes the doer unjust.
(b) Socrates shows Polemarchus that stealing from the rich is unjust.
(c) Socrates reasons that it is impossible to determine what is fair in every situation.
(d) Socrates shows Polemarchus that every man is intrinsically free, regardless of the law.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the major point of Aristophanes' speech?

2. Socrates concludes which of the following about virtue?

3. When Ion admits to Socrates that he can only recite one poet's work well, Socrates is puzzled by which of the following?

4. How does Polemarchus define justice?

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

(see the answer key)

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