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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Republic: Book III.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Why does Socrates discuss Asclepius' philosophy?
(a) His leadership is a good example of how not to lead.
(b) He has a practical approach of only treating patients whom he knows he can heal.
(c) His leadership is well established.
(d) He disagrees with Socrates about the ideal republic.
2. One large theme that permeates throughout Meno is:
(a) There can never be universal ethics.
(b) Non- virtuous people can still perform virtuous actions
(c) Learning is really a recollection of old knowledge.
(d) A proposition can only be deemed valid if it is testable in the empirical world.
3. When pressed by Socrates to explain his skill, Ion asserts which of the following?
(a) When he recites passage about military exploits he cannot tell if he does so with the candor of a general.
(b) Socrates should not be asking him questions.
(c) When he recites poetry he feels like the poet himself.
(d) He is unqualified to comment on the artistic value of the his recitations.
4. Before Socrates delivers his speech, he cross- examines Agathon about which of the following?
(a) Agathon's poetic license.
(b) Whether love is necessarily beautiful.
(c) How one can know that he is truly in love.
(d) Whether loves is necessarily possible.
5. Whose side is Adeimantus on, at least in the beginning of the dialogue?
(a) Socrates'.
(b) Glaucon's.
(c) He does not advocate his own position, and he is on neither Glaucon's nor Socrates' side.
(d) He has his own distinct position.
Short Answer Questions
1. What is the major point of Aristophanes' speech?
2. In Socrates' ideal city, poets and soothsayers:
3. What types of stories, according to Socrates, ought we to read to children when they are very young?
4. According to Socrates' insinuation, artistic knowledge is characterized as which of the following?
5. Describe Thrasymachus' view of Socrates.
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