Great Dialogues Quiz | Eight Week Quiz C

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Great Dialogues Quiz | Eight Week Quiz C

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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 Ion, Socrates is concerned primarily with which of the following?
(a) Ion's secret relationship with Agathon.
(b) Distinguishing how we know things artistically from how we know things inspirationally.
(c) Proving that Ion is not as smart as he is.
(d) Defining virtue by more than just examples of virtue.

2. Though Glaucon is primarily concerned about justice within the individual, Socrates first begins by analyzing __________.
(a) Glaucon's own virtue.
(b) Virtue as it is demanded of the city's leaders.
(c) Justice as it relates to an entire city's population.
(d) Justice as it relates to a small family.

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

4. In Ion, Socrates concludes that Ion's ability to memorize poetry is which of the following?
(a) Divinely inspired, just like the very poets whom Ion recites.
(b) An art that he learned from others.
(c) Not proof that he knows what it actually means.
(d) Proof that he knows what it actually means.

5. What does Socrates tell Ion about a person who can recite poetry well?
(a) Only a person who understands a poem's meaning could be a good reciter.
(b) Memorizing poetry is a way of balancing the soul.
(c) Ion should memorize philosophy instead of poetry.
(d) Ion must not know the meaning of poetry if he just memorizes it.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Republic: Book III, Socrates is first concerned with:

2. One large theme that permeates throughout Meno is:

3. What definition of virtue do Meno and Socrates borrow from "the poets"?

4. How does Dimotia characterize love?

5. In Socrates' republic, judges must__________.

(see the answer key)

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