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

2. What poet is cited by Cephalus to explain the paradox of old age?
(a) Pindar.
(b) Shakespeare.
(c) Homer.
(d) Petrach.

3. Who is the last person to leave the symposium?
(a) Socrates.
(b) Appolodorus.
(c) Aristophenes.
(d) Diotima.

4. In Ion, Socrates compares Ion to which of the following?
(a) Musicians.
(b) Religious prophets.
(c) Plato.
(d) Greek artists and sculptors.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Before Socrates delivers his speech, he cross- examines Agathon about which of the following?

2. Who is Eryximachus?

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

4. Ion is renowned for his ability to recite which famous poet?

5. Socrates concludes which of the following about virtue?

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