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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Socrates claims that he learned about love from which of the following?
(a) Plato.
(b) Alcibides.
(c) Meno.
(d) Diotima.

2. In Socrates' ideal nation, literature which depicts the afterlife should depict it as___________.
(a) Foreboding.
(b) Mysterious.
(c) Positive.
(d) Negative.

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

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

5. Who said the following: "may not the art of which neither teachers nor disciples exist be assumed to be incapable of being taught?"
(a) Meno's wife.
(b) Socrates.
(c) Meno.
(d) The slave boy.

Short Answer Questions

1. One virtue that Socrates constantly refers to in his reasoning throughout Book III is_____________.

2. Which demographic of the Athenian population does Socrates single out for discussion?

3. Why does Socrates discuss Asclepius' philosophy?

4. At whose house does the Symposium take place?

5. In the dialogue, Meno blames the confusion in his speech on which of the following?

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