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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How does Polemarchus define justice?
(a) Allowing each man to live his life freely.
(b) Stealing from the rich and giving to the poor.
(c) Doing good to one's friends and evil to one's enemies.
(d) Being fair in all contexts.

3. When Ion admits to Socrates that he can only recite one poet's work well, Socrates is puzzled by which of the following?
(a) How an artistic skill can be limited in its expertise.
(b) How Ion considers himself a philosopher.
(c) Ion's desire to speak with Socrates about his work.
(d) Ion's hesitation to answer questions about his family.

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

5. Who gives the last formal speech at the symposium?
(a) Agathon.
(b) Socrates.
(c) Pausanias.
(d) Appolodorus.

Short Answer Questions

1. Socrates concludes which of the following about virtue?

2. To understand Ion's poetically inspired spirit, Socrates employs a metaphor of which of the following?

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

4. What does Cephalus say to Socrates about old age?

5. To illustrate one facet of his argument, Socrates employs the help of which character?

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