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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. At whose house does the Symposium take place?
(a) Agathon.
(b) Socrates.
(c) Phaedrus.
(d) Alcidbides.

3. Who is the last person to leave the symposium?
(a) Socrates.
(b) Appolodorus.
(c) Diotima.
(d) Aristophenes.

4. Who is Eryximachus?
(a) A doctor who argues that love is like a medicine curing life's ailments.
(b) A philosopher who attacks Pausanias' postion.
(c) A poet who argues that men and woman were once fused beings.
(d) The last speaker and surprise guest at the symposium.

5. How does Socrates rebut the definition of virtue offered by the poets?
(a) By giving Meno a solid definition of virtue.
(b) By showing Meno that all men desire good things, but that not all men are virtuous.
(c) By proving to Meno that there are many commonly held virtues.
(d) By instructing Meno that it is impossible to have an abstract entity which moves other things but does not move itself.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Socrates' insinuation, artistic knowledge is characterized as which of the following?

2. Which of the following does Socrates reason about poetry?

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

4. Socrates claims that he learned about love from which of the following?

5. Ion is renowned for his ability to recite which famous poet?

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