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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 Thrasymachus first define justice?
(a) "Making laws to one's own disadvantage."
(b) "Being impartial and unbiased in all decisions."
(c) "Nothing other than the advantage of the stronger."
(d) "Acting selflessly, so that the kingdom may prosper."

2. To illustrate one facet of his argument, Socrates employs the help of which character?
(a) Plato to clarify Socrates' words for a perplexed Meno.
(b) A nearby slave boy to whom he teaches simple geometry.
(c) Meno's wife.
(d) A nearby guard who speaks about virtuous people he knows.

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

4. Before Socrates delivers his speech, he cross- examines Agathon about which of the following?
(a) Whether loves is necessarily possible.
(b) How one can know that he is truly in love.
(c) Whether love is necessarily beautiful.
(d) Agathon's poetic license.

5. Describe Thrasymachus' view of Socrates.
(a) He hates Socrates and thinks Socrates is stupid.
(b) He likes the Socratic method of reasoning.
(c) He chastizes Socrates for asking questions freely, but dodging them when he is asked a question himself.
(d) He can't follow Socrates' logic.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. According to Socrates' view of justice, a ruler should always:

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

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

5. How does Socrates rebut the definition of virtue offered by the poets?

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