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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Republic: Book III.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. 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) A nearby guard who speaks about virtuous people he knows.
(d) Meno's wife.
2. Why does Glaucon continue conversing with Socrates?
(a) Because he is not satisfied with Socrates' response to Thrasymachus.
(b) Because he is convinced he can win an argument against Socrates.
(c) Because he agrees with Socrates that injustice is better than justice.
(d) Because he is provoked by Adeimantus to do so.
3. Glaucon offers Socrates a proof that ____________________.
(a) Justice can't have a consistent definition.
(b) A just life is better than a just one.
(c) Appearing unjust but actually being just is most desirable.
(d) An unjust lifestyle is more rewarding than a just one.
4. How does Meno respond to Socrates' question: "Do bees differ as bees, because there are many different kinds of them; or, are they not rather to be distinguished by some other quality, as for example beauty, size, or shape?"
(a) "I don't understand your question."
(b) "I should say that bees must differ from one another, as bees."
(c) "I should answer that bees do not differ from one another, as bees."
(d) "They're just bees. Who cares?"
5. When Socrates meets Ion, Ion has just returned from which of the following?
(a) Agathon's drinking party.
(b) A poetry recital contest in Epidarus.
(c) Socrates' trial.
(d) A game at the Coliseum.
Short Answer Questions
1. In the dialogue, Meno blames the confusion in his speech on which of the following?
2. When Meno arrives in Athens, who is accompanying him?
3. Socrates intends his imagined city to be taken as a symbolic model for__________.
4. In Ion, Socrates is concerned primarily with which of the following?
5. Who gives the last formal speech at the symposium?
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