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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Socrates' ideal city, poets and soothsayers:
(a) Would not be allowed to speak falsely about the gods.
(b) Would be rich while the workers would be poor.
(c) Would lead religious ceremonies.
(d) Would be considered useless and expelled.

2. Socrates intends his imagined city to be taken as a symbolic model for__________.
(a) Justice personified.
(b) The individual soul.
(c) The natural animal kingdom.
(d) Collective consciousness.

3. When he first meets Socrates, Meno asks the following question:
(a) Where he can learn how to be a philosopher?
(b) Is justice necessarily a good thing?
(c) How do we know if what we are seeing in the physical world actually exists?
(d) Is virtue taught, or is it inherent to good people?

4. Glaucon offers Socrates a proof that ____________________.
(a) Justice can't have a consistent definition.
(b) An unjust lifestyle is more rewarding than a just one.
(c) Appearing unjust but actually being just is most desirable.
(d) A just life is better than a just one.

5. What types of stories, according to Socrates, ought we to read to children when they are very young?
(a) False ones (myths) that are not grounded in any truth.
(b) True ones with false elements.
(c) False ones (myths), with a true element.
(d) True ones with only true elements

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In Socrates' ideal nation, literature which depicts the afterlife should depict it as___________.

3. Though Glaucon is primarily concerned about justice within the individual, Socrates first begins by analyzing __________.

4. In order to respond to Glaucon's objections, Socrates ___________________.

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

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